[Toaster] general solution proposed for 7394 "Toaster needs to add a space to the value of IMAGE_INSTALL_append"

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Thu Mar 12 07:51:25 PDT 2015


On Thursday 12 March 2015 14:44:22 Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> On 12/03/2015 14:09, "Damian, Alexandru" <alexandru.damian at intel.com>
> 
> wrote:
> >In fact what we can do is have a pull down list in the page to specific
> >and select any of the supported special operators, and let the javascript
> >manipulate these special syntaxes. That way no one needs to
> >memorize/learn about the supported operators, making the whole thing more
> >intuitive and self-directed.
> 
> If we want to introduce operators, we'll need to provide controls in the
> configuration variables page to set them, together with help to explain
> what each of them means. Considering that we are implementing special
> controls to ease the manipulation of certain variables, I would need to
> find a way of inserting the operator control so that it works in all cases
> (and not only when we simply have a text field to set the variable value).
> 
> 
> I raised this question when we were designing the variables page, and the
> answer was not to include operators. I would rather not do it now at this
> late stage, to be honest. With what we have left in the release, I rather
> go for the simplest acceptable solution.

I agree - I think we can't solve this in a generic and practical manner in 1.8 
with the time available. Let's address this in 1.9.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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