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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:22:55 +1000
From: Greg Banks <gnb@alphalink.com.au>
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements
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Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:23:19PM +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
> >
> > 977    missing-experimental-tag
> > 113    spurious-experimental-tag
> > 145    variant-experimental-tag
> > 30     inconsistent-experimental-tag
> > 13     missing-obsolete-tag
> > 41     spurious-obsolete-tag
> > 25     variant-obsolete-tag
> How about extending the language (side effect) to automagically append
> (EXPERIMENTAL) or (OBSOLETE) to the menu line, if dependent on
> those special tags?

Yes, this is obviously a good idea, and also it's what CML2 did.
Especially considering that (NEW) is automatically generated, and
(NEW) is not intuitively different from (EXPERIMENTAL) to the lay
user.

The trouble is actually achieving that in shell-based parsers where
shell code cannot tell whether $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL has been used in
a condition.

Greg.
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