Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:23:13 -0500 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: Bloat thread... |
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On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 05:29:02PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > > > Probably what would be a much better use of this bandwidth would be for > > someone to volunteer idle cycles on their Whizzbang 1000 Intel box as > > a compile server for the latest & greatest. It sure seems like this > > would be useful and you could make a combination of config files and > > built kernels & modules available for ftp. Somebody should talk to > > lma@varesearch.com about this. > > Developing a web front-end with the functionality of "make xconfig" > would be a pretty trivial project. I would be great to have a webserver > that would > allow building custom kernels and archive the configurations that are > built.
mm. I'm trying to do a front-end, and I can see one problem. The current config scripts are meant to be interpreted rather than compiled. As of now, all the constructs _can_ be compiled eg to create a web form. However, since the linus tree is not guaranteed to maintain this behaviour, this might become false in the future. I _don't_ want to use javascript etc to do the config because if you can run netscape with java on ur machine, u can probably compile a kernel anyway. Need a front end that can be accessed with lynx. Alternative is to use telnet with shell=make config.
-- arvind
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