Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:37:51 -0500 (EST) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: why the new config process is a *big* step backwards |
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> Robert, > > please study scripts/kconfig/*, not how one particular frontend is. > The new kernel configurator is actually a big improvement over the > traditional stuff we used to have up to 2.4. Okay, it is a fact that > xconfig is far from great, but that doesn't matter -- the important > thing is Kconfig provides a clean, generic system for the actual kernel > configuration. As I already pointed out a fortnight ago or so, the > only config frontend likely to stay in linux.tar in the long run is > menuconfig, serving as a reference to userland people who are certain > to come up with heaps of different Kconfig frontends (that is when > 2.6 ships I guess). > > If you need a nifty graphical frontend right away, I suggest you > go ahead and write the first off-tree xconfig.
ok, point taken. i'll take a look at it, thanks.
rday
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