Kconfiglib.git/oldconfig.py, branch v14.0.0

Use 'python3' instead of 'python' in hashbangs

2020-01-24T20:33:47Z

It's not obligatory for distributions to have a 'python' binary these days, but 'python3' is likely to be available: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#for-python-runtime-distributors. Change all hashbangs to point to 'python3'. This will break running $ ./script.py on *nix systems that don't have a 'python3' executable. Changing it to $ python script.py is pretty painless at least. This change won't break Python 2 when installing via 'pip', because entry_points creates bounce scripts with their own hashbangs. The major version will be increased, in case someone looks at the major version but doesn't install via 'pip'. Fixes: #89

Convert standard_kconfig() to argparse for better feedback

2019-10-10T08:07:29Z

Stuff like this is not the pinnacle of helpful design, and hides that the commands actually have long help texts (that can be viewed with pydoc): $ ./menuconfig.py --help [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '--help' Fix it by converting standard_kconfig() to argparse, and add a 'description' argument to it for the command-specific help text. --help now shows the same help text shown by pydoc, and some other error messages are improved as well. Also fix some copy-paste errors and outdated paths in the help texts for the all*config commands.

Have load_config() and write_(min_)config() return messages

2019-06-03T04:50:06Z

Hardcoding load_config() and write_(min_)config() to write any message to stdout is awkward, because it means that the message can't be easily reused when stdout is the wrong place to write it to (e.g. in menuconfig/guiconfig). This gets extra bad now that there's also the "No change to ..." message. Modify load_config() and write_(min_)config() to return the message as a string instead, and have them always return a message, instead of just when 'filename' is None and verbose=True. This makes things flexible and straightforward. Use the new behavior in menuconfig.py and guiconfig.py. They now show "No change to ..." when saving a file doesn't modify it. Tools that want to write messages to stdout should now do print(kconf.load_config()) / print(kconf.write_config()). There's no clean way to preserve perfect backwards compatibility here, but keep accepting the 'verbose' argument and print a deprecation warning if a value is ever passed for it. That way, scripts will keep running, though possibly with less output on stdout. This changes the meaning of the load_config() return value as well, though I suspect it was only ever used by the menuconfig/guiconfig interfaces. The new behavior applies for kconfiglib.VERSION >= (12, 0, 0).

Remove some comments re. setup.py entry points

2019-05-19T01:10:37Z

Only appeared in two of the scripts, and main() is such a common convention anyway.

Make .config.old easier to discover

2019-05-19T01:07:47Z

Mention that the old version of an overwritten configuration file is saved to .old in a few different places, to make it easier to discover.

Whitespace consistency nit

2019-03-22T19:43:30Z

Convert some comments to module docstrings in utilities

2019-03-22T16:29:12Z

This makes running pydoc(3) on the utilities helpful. Reuse the module docstring for the --help text for utilities that use argparse. Also fix some copy-paste errors in the all*config.py descriptions and clean up the language a bit. Piggyback removal of an optimization in allmodconfig.py that's pretty irrelevant now.

oldconfig: Style nit

2019-03-14T15:43:36Z

Use a consistent style in small utilities

2019-03-06T01:03:41Z

Also remove some no longer used imports.

2019-01-15T22:12:10Z