[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by indagroove

I am willing to admit my ignorance, so please enlighten me as to what the "significant drawbacks" are? Is it simply the fact that PPCKitchen will overwrite duplicate files? What else?

That's worth the price of admittion in itself (deleteing files is a crappy way of working around the issue), but no, that's not all. Fundamentally, ppck has better control over the build process. It's structure is more friendly to the seasoned pro as well as the novice. It does dynamic and static pagepools. It builds for multiple devices just as easily as one.

If PPCKitchen had better documentation, I would likely use it more. I don't mean how to build a basic rom with the packages that you supply but how to do some advanced cooking, and use your own bases with the kitchen.

"Advanced cooking"? wtf is that? Cooking w/ today's tools isn't rocket science. 95% of the roms here can be made (sans any artwork) by a blithering idiot in no time at all. As to documentation, what do you want to know? It's a lot more intuitive than old or new bepe is. About the only thing not intuitive is how to do the build steps individually. If you find yourself needing to do that, let us know. As to building with your own base, 99.9% of people should not do that, but there are plenty of examples if you really want to.

You mentioned earlier that PPCKitchen will automatically display your name in he rom, but how do we choose what we want it to display?

The quick answer is you don't. That might change in the future, if a need presents itself.

I've used PPC Kichen many times, and it is quite good. However, it is just a little too automated my my liking. I like bepe's tools, because I know what they're doing. It's true that my knowlegde of how PPCKitchen works is limited, so please educate the masses!

lol - it's the same automated as Bepe's! Just because you have have to run a .bat and then poke the green arrow vs run an .exe and poke the green arrow doesn't change how they both build a rom. It's true you can not use the .bat file with bepe and do each step by hand, but how often do you do that? Of course, it's also true you can do the discrete steps in ppck...few people need that level of functionality.

Also, if I could be sure that I could build a rom without needing an internet connection, I would be more likely to use PPCKitchen.

I'm not saying to use ppck - I'm saying not to use old bepe. Now you have a choice of new bepe or ppck. Most of the painful limitations of old bepe are resolved in new bepe (but new bepe is definitely harder to configure). I'm totally fascinated by the concern over an internet connection - Yes, you can cook in ppck without being connected to the internet.

In the end, is there really anything superior in a rom built with PPCKitchen vs Bepe's tools, or is it simply the process??

They are more likely to boot and have fewer problems, on average. This is in part because of the improved build control, but also because ppck can learn dependencies and incompatibilities.