Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:11:30 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers |
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Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>: > Increased functionality I don't have a problem with, as long > as other more important things are addressed. And for that matter, > Linus has said to Eric "I don't care, take this out of the > kernel completely leaving just oldconfig'. > > It might just be the sanest choice, and leave all this discussion > in userland.
CML2 can live in userland. It already does; three other projects use it. The kernel rulebase cannot. The real issue here is whether the CML1 language carries sufficient information to support things like side-effect deduction. And the answer is "no". -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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