Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Dec 2001 00:34:13 +0100 | From | Dominik Mierzejewski <> | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy |
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On Wednesday, 26 December 2001, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:44:36PM +0000, Riley Williams <rhw@memalpha.cx> wrote: > | >> I take it this is your way of volunteering to always keep all > | >> kernel documentation accurate as well as answer questions from > | >> newbies who've never seen 'KiB' before ? ;) > | > | > One of the arguments for the KiB declaration, despite the ugliness > | > of "kibibytes", is that a newbie seeing "32KiB" is quite likely to > | > deduce what's meant from context. Let's not exaggerate the > | > difficulties here. > | > | Alternatively, deal with this problem the same way the "This may also be > | built as a module..." comment is - either include it several thousand > | times in Configure.help or (better still) have the configuration tools > | spit it out automatically every time the need for it crops up. The > | following ruleset could easily be implemented even in the `make config` > | and `make menuconfig` parsers, and should be just as easy in CML2. > | Applying rule (1) will result in a considerable reduction in the size of > | the file Documentation/Configure.help as it currently stands. > | > | Comments, anybody? > > I like this!
I second this. Being a translator of the file in question, I have to deal with ten slightly different versions of "You may also compile this as a module...". So I have ten slighlty different translations of this text, too, in the name of accuracy.
Although I thought there was an agreement that decimal kilobyte is kB, and binary kilobyte is KiB, decimal megabyte is MB, binary megabyte is MB and so on, wasn't there?
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