Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Feb 2003 00:40:21 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Perl in the toolchain |
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On 2003.02.01 Jeff Garzik wrote: > J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 2003.01.31 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >>On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:26PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > >> > >>>Generally, we've been trying to not make perl a prequisite for the kernel > >>>build, and I'd like to keep it that way. Except for some arch specific > >> > >>That's pretty much out the window when klibc gets merged, so perl will > >>indeed be a build requirement for all platforms... > >> > > > > > > So in short, kernel people: > > - do not want perl in the kernel build > > - allow qt to pollute the kernel to have a decent gui config tool > > - have to rewrite half perl features in C > > - but perl will be needed anyways > > > > instead of > > - do all parsing in perl, that is what perl is for and what is mainly done > > in kconfig scripts > > - do the config backend in perl, and... > > - do the gui in perl-XXX, so you can have perl-GTK, perl-GTK2, perl-QT or > > perl-Tk, even perl-Xaw (so you get rid of tcl/tk) > > > > I really do not understand... > > > Well, you appear to be taking the superset of opinions, which is > guaranteed to generate a paradox, I should think ;-) > > Specifically regarding kconf, it does not require Qt; Qt is merely an > optional piece. > > For Perl, yes I personally think it is needed anyway. And re-creating > Perl's features in C, just to avoid Perl, is not the best technical > solution when developers already have Perl installed. >
As someone said, parsing and string processing is one of the jobs in kernel config. Kernel gurus decided to rewrite the thing in C to avoid the lacks in the current bash-ish kconfig, because writing logic for dependencies, checks and so on is a pain...so let's rewrite the logic handling, _and_ the string processing, btw. The easies way (from my point of view): write Perl::KConfig in C to do the logic hard work and build the big thing in perl. That will be putting a perl interface on top of klibc ?
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