true/false vs. yes/no

[Mario Torre]

Don't know about the variable value (does seem a bit inconsistent indeed,
although it makes some sense) but the yes/no is AFAIK pretty standard.

For example, this comes from the GNU.org guides (
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Configuration.html):

"""
Configure the package to build and install an optional user-level
facility called feature.  This allows users to choose which
optional features to include.  Giving an optional parameter of
‘no’ should omit feature, if it is built by default.
"""

I guess the variable value makes some sense, since false is the value
assigned by answering "no" to the enable question.

Mario

Il giorno giovedì 4 ottobre 2012, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> ha
scritto:
> Just got bitten by the fact that the --enable-jfr flag takes the values
yes or no when passed to configure, but the ENABLE_JFR variable gets set to
true or false.
>
> Is there a reason for this inconsistency (is it normal for configure
based systems)?
>
> David
>

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