Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "Henning" == Henning P Schmiedehausen <[e-mail]> writes:

Henning> "Eric S. Raymond" <[e-mail]> writes:
>> Here is an example map block for my kxref.py tool:

>> # %Map # T: CONFIG_ namespace cross-reference generator/analyzer #
>> P: Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> # M: [e-mail] # L:
>> [e-mail] # W:
>> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2 # D: Sat Apr 21 11:41:52 EDT 2001 #
>> S: Maintained

>> Comments are solicited.

Henning> Hi Eric,

Henning> please not. If you really want to redo this, please use a
Henning> simple XML markup.  Let's not introduce another kind of
Henning> markup if there is already a well distributed and working.

Henning> What's wrong with:

DON'T! go there, please!

A) This sucks to write and maintain, B) it sucks for people bringing
up Linux on a minimum system or new architecture because they don't
want to have to install 217 XML and other tools to just be able to
configure and build a basic kernel.

Jes