Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:11:30 -0500

Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>:
> Increased functionality I don't have a problem with, as long
> as other more important things are addressed. And for that matter,
> Linus has said to Eric "I don't care, take this out of the
> kernel completely leaving just oldconfig'.
>
> It might just be the sanest choice, and leave all this discussion
> in userland.

CML2 can live in userland. It already does; three other projects use it.
The kernel rulebase cannot. The real issue here is whether the CML1
language carries sufficient information to support things like
side-effect deduction. And the answer is "no".

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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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