Richard Purdie writes:
>> > > > This script searches for a list of variable that have been renamed
>> > > > and converts them to their more descriptive names.
>>
>> s/descriptive/politically correct/
>
> We did try and make some of the names better describe what the variables
> do and make the v
On Fri, 2022-02-18 at 15:27 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Richard Purdie writes:
>
> > > > This script searches for a list of variable that have been renamed
> > > > and converts them to their more descriptive names.
>
> s/descriptive/politically correct/
We did try and make some of the names b
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 15:27, Enrico Scholz via lists.openembedded.org
wrote:
> > Unfortunately there likely isn't a perfect rename and these were the
> > best we were able to come up with.
>
> Why is the rename done at all? It makes the product just worse due to a
> less usable api and because i
Richard Purdie writes:
>> > This script searches for a list of variable that have been renamed
>> > and converts them to their more descriptive names.
s/descriptive/politically correct/
>> again: most of these renamings make identifiers much less descriptive
>> because they now sound like bool
On Fri, 2022-02-18 at 14:40 +0100, Enrico Scholz via lists.openembedded.org
wrote:
> "Saul Wold" writes:
>
> > From: Saul Wold
> >
> > This script searches for a list of variable that have been renamed
> > and converts them to their more descriptive names.
>
> again: most of these renamings ma
"Saul Wold" writes:
> From: Saul Wold
>
> This script searches for a list of variable that have been renamed
> and converts them to their more descriptive names.
again: most of these renamings make identifiers much less descriptive
because they now sound like boolean flags instead of lists
>
On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 16:32 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
> +def processfile(fn):
> +
> +print(f"processing file '{fn}'")
The fact that someone took the original conversion scripts, dropped the
copyright header and then added f strings to it, which the project doesn't yet
officially support and are
On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 16:32 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
> From: Saul Wold
>
> This script searches for a list of variable that have been renamed
> and converts them to their more descriptive names. It also searches
> for a list of variables that have been removed or deprecated and
> prints a message.
From: Saul Wold
This script searches for a list of variable that have been renamed
and converts them to their more descriptive names. It also searches
for a list of variables that have been removed or deprecated and
prints a message.
It will print a message to inform the user that there are term
