Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

[Eric S. Raymond]

Arjan van de Ven <[e-mail]>:
> > But I think you know very well that the usual flow looks like this:
> > 
> > 1. You throw a patch over the wall to Linus.
> > 
> > 2. Either it shows up in the next release...
> > 
> > 3. ...or you hear a vast and echoing silence.
> 
> You're telling me Linus never mailed you about splitting up Configure.help ?

That's right.  The only time I ever saw Linus express an opinion on
this was in a post on lkml in which he said he didn't like the big
monolithic help file.  It didn't seem especially directed to me; I am
not the CML1 maintainer.

But I took it as a suggestion for CML2.  I told him I was willing to
do it after CML2 cutover, but was not sure he had considered the
ramifications for maintaining rulebase translations.  To this request
for clarification and guidance, I received no reply.
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>