Re: [ECOS] Problem with adding new packages in windows configuration tool

[Bart Veer <bartv at ecoscentric dot com>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Paulson-Ellis <kelsall@dsl.pipex.com> writes:

    Chris> Hmm... It sounds like the hardware property should be there
    Chris> (the package will probably only work on an ISA PC), but
    Chris> there are more changes required to ecos.db. How come I
    Chris> didn't have any trouble with ecosconfig on Unix? Does it do
    Chris> different checks to the windows config tool?

ecosconfig is a simpler tool than the GUI configtool. It may not do
all the same checks.

In this case, it might be better if the tools behaved as follows:

  1) the GUI tool should probably warn when adding a hardware package
     not listed for the current target, popping up a message box to
     ask for user confirmation. Completely disallowing such actions is
     too strong, but the user should get a warning that she/he is
     doing something potentially dangerous.

  2) ecosconfig should be extended with some checks. Adding a hardware
     package not listed for the current target should be disallowed by
     default, but the user could override this with e.g. a --force
     option.

However there are very many ways in which the configuration tools can
be improved. This particular problem has not occurred very often, so
fixing it is not a high priority for me. You might want to file a
bugzilla report to make sure it does not get forgotten.

Bart

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