Re: FWD: Re: [ECOS] Accessing config parameters in define_proc code

[Bart Veer <bartv at ecoscentric dot com>]

>>>>> "Jifl" == Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com> writes:

    Jifl> Andrew Lunn wrote:
    >> I finally got my head around enough of the libcdl concepts to make a
    >> stab at implementing this. Please can you take a look at this
    >> patch. Is this the correct way to do it? It works. Unbelievably, it
    >> even worked first time!

    Jifl> Hey Bart, you're out of a job!

Oh no, not again :-)

This is a very impressive effort, although none of it matches with
how I had intended things to work :-)

However, I would have much preferred it if you had taken the custom
build step route I suggested. One of the problems with libcdl is that
it does not lend itself to small incremental improvements. Those work
fine for people who rebuild from source. They do not work so well for
people who use prebuilt binaries, which I suspect is rather more than
half the user base - especially in the case of the GUI tool. If a CDL
script starts relying on new libcdl functionality we need to provide
new binaries and get people to download and install them. Many people
will ignore that request, and you can end up with people complaining
about strange error messages.

I need to think about this a bit, and maybe change the priority of
various projects.

Bart