On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:45 AM, walter harms <wha...@bfs.de> wrote: > > > Am 17.08.2014 11:22, schrieb Denys Vlasenko: > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:11 PM, <lp...@archlinux.us> wrote: > > > >> Applets are defining the help display text on their own, and it is > >> different for different applets. > >> > > > > I don't see any obvious way to make it easier without significant bloat. > > > > Pass a list of options, parameters and their explanations to a function > > which builds help text? This will likely be bigger than the help text > > (many pointers to small strings results in pointers taking > > almost the same amount of space than strings!) > > > > Even if you manage to avoid _that_ bloat somehow, > > you can't bzip2-compress tiny bits of text. > > We currently bzip2-compress our help text as one big blob, > > with BIG savings in size - more than 50% > > > > And then you discover that some applets really want a bit > > of customization to the way how options are explained. > > > > > > Would that something for busybox.net/TODO section ? > "Verify that help text and option are in sync" >
Would what for TODO? It should not never really be validated by a human in the first place. An applet author should just fill in the metadata. All the rest should be automatically handled IMHO. Otherwise, it is error-prone, will likely only cause the chaos that the applets have now with regards to this.
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