[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] packages/Config.in: Alphabetical entries sorting

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi Maxime,

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Maxime Hadjinlian
<maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
> <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I can follow all changes, except this one: the 'Misc devices
>> firmwares' menu is a submenu, between normal packages. Moving that in
>> alphabetical order between normal packages seems very odd to me.
> I did it after looking at the "Interpreter languages and scripting"
> menu where the "Lua libraries/modules" would appear in order.

There it makes sense: the 'Lua libraries/modules' submenu comes
immediately after the 'lua' package (that appears in alpabetical order
with the other packages in that menu). Moving the Lua libraries menu
away from the lua package is not logical.

>
>> Especially because the name 'Misc' does not carry a real meaning.
>>
>> By the way, I don't think that 'firmwares' is correct English, the
>> '-ware' already is plural, so it should be 'Misc devices firmware' or
>> maybe plain 'Firmware' (are there other firmware packages in buildroot
>> that are not part of this menu?).
> After a very quick search, it seems you are right about the 's' of firmware.
> About the naming of the menu, we already are in Hardware menu, so
> talking about "devices" may seem redundant, and the Misc is maybe too
> cumbersome. Although, a simple "Firmware" would not be very friendly.
> How about settling on "Firmware's Devices" ? Give or take the casing.

Then this should be 'Device firmware'
because "Firmware's Devices" means "The devices of firmware" which is
not what you intend to say.

I'm not convinced there exists firmware for something else than a
device though. For me 'Firmware' or 'Device firmware' are both ok.

Best regards,
Thomas