Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | KBuild 2.5 Migration | Date | Fri, 31 May 2002 06:46:02 +0200 |
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On Friday 31 May 2002 06:01, Skip Ford wrote: > Thunder from the hill wrote: > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Skip Ford wrote: > > > I could be wrong but I think Linus wants small patches that slowly > > > convert kbuild24 to kbuild25, and not just a chopped up wholesale > > > kbuild25. > > > > That's what we have. If you want to try kbuild-2.5, you have to use the > > Makefile-2.5 explicitly. If you don't explicitly do that, you're using > > kbuild-2.4, so you got a pretty good chance to evaluate kbuild-2.5 and > > then decide whether you leave it or pull it. Enough migration? > > That's not a migration at all. That's two different build systems side > by side. > > A migration would mean that there is only ever 1 build system. Send > patches that would convert what we have now to kbuild25 over the next 10 > kernel releases or so. That's a migration.
You're 'improving' the meaning of the term a little. Suppose you're going to migrate all the servers in a company from Windows to Linux, do you come up with a succesion of intermediate operating systems? IOW, in a migration, it is the users who migrate, not the software. I believe the term you were thinking of is 'evolution'.
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