Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 May 2001 04:52:22 -0400 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Why recovering from broken configs is too hard |
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Greg Banks <gnb@alphalink.com.au>: > There is a natural order for presenting variables to the > user, and that's the menu tree order. At least in the Linux > kernel CML2 corpus the menus are roughly organised from most > general to most specific options, so options appearing earlier > in the tree are likely to appear in more constraints and you > probably want to ask the user to mutate them later.
OK. Agreed, but it doesn't solve the general problem. Generating models is still hard. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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