Re: [DNG] UMENU (v2)

2016-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 17:12:14 -0400 Brian Nash wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 02:36:06PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >The last two items on the preceding list are why deployment is so > >problematic. On my system, each of my 237 submenus requires its > >own .mnu (menu description) file. These are

Re: [DNG] UMENU (v2)

2016-08-06 Thread Brian Nash
What about the linux kconf menus? (`make menuconfig`) Once menuconfig is compiled, it is executed with a Kconfig file passed as an argument. It loads the file (and included files) very quickly, and the Kconfig files are _massive_. After it loads the file(s), it parses them, then determines what

Re: [DNG] UMENU (v2)

2016-08-05 Thread aitor_czr
Hi Steve, On 08/04/2016 11:32 PM, Steve Litt wrote: The only ways I can think of to run single menus off the entire menu system config is either: 1) Keep the entire config in a directory/file tree, or Good :) 2) Keep the entire config in a quickly queryable database, hence the questi

[DNG] UMENU (v2)

2016-08-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I asked a hypothetical question about dependencies, using a menu program as an example. 3/4 of you were more interested in the nature of the menu program than in its dependencies. Well, the good news is, version 1 of this program, called UMENU, has existed since 1999 and in its present for