[RFC PATCH 05/28] cli: lil: Rename some functions to be more like TCL

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 07:58:18PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Sean,
> 
> In message <d808990b-623d-d962-c7d6-e40063bc5dab at gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > > Is your intent to create a fork of this in U-Boot? 
> >
> > Yes. I believe some of the major additions I have made (especially "[RFC
> > PATCH 21/28] cli: lil: Add a distinct parsing step") would not be
> > accepted by upstream.
> 
> Ouch...
> 
> > > Could we not update things upstream, at least as an option, to avoid
> > > carrying these patches?
> >
> > For some of the smaller patches, that may be possible. However, I am not
> > a fan of the major amount of ifdefs that Hush has. For something as core
> > as a shell, I think we should be free to make changes as we see fit
> > without worrying about how it will affect a hypothetical backport.
> 
> I'm afraind I cannot understand your thinking.
> 
> You complain that the existing port of hus has a number of severe
> limitations or bugs which have long been fixed upstream, but cannot
> be easily fixed in U-Boot because we essentially created an
> unmaintained fork - and as a cure, you recommend to do the same
> thing again, but this time intentionally and deliberately?
> 
> 
> If you had not apparently already invested a lot of effort into this
> thing I would assume you must be joking...
> 
> To me such an approach is unacceptable.

I think I want to try and address this.  While with "hush" we have
something that's in heavy active development outside of U-Boot, with LIL
we have something that's mature and "done".  Tracking an active outside
development is HARD and requires constant resync.  Look at the last few
LIL releases.  That could be easily re-worked in to our fork if needed.
I see that as a positive, not a negative.

-- 
Tom
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