[ECOS] Re: eCos configuration question (was Re: [ECOS] General Q ...)

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

On 2007-05-31, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:

>> Other than just a hackish preference for command lines, is there anything
>> that ecosconfig can do that configtool can't? The latter seems pretty
>> useful, as it lets you see all the documentation on options that is
>> otherwise scattered around a million .cdl files.
>
> I for one rarely do anything that I can't script.  ecosconfig
> works perfectly for this, the configtool does not.  For example,
> I may build as many as 128 (or more) versions of RedBoot at
> one time, each requiring its own configuration, build tree, etc.
> If I *had* to do this with the GUI, I'd never get my work done!

While I don't have to do 128 versions of anything, I do have to
do 3 or 4 versions at a time, and using the GUI would still
take forever.  As far as documentation goes, I find that when
throubleshooting a configuration, as often as not I want to see
not only the description, but the actual CDL.

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