Eric Raymond`s CML2 configuration generator
The question is why the utterly beautiful generator was dropped?
Its good side was in its inability to get an invalid kernel
configuration.
One of the obvious problems is that it was python-based, and thus being slow and requiring python to be installed.
So what if it was written in C?
Is it possible for it to get in before 2.6?
regards, Samium Gromoff
Quoted 1 line · Samium Gromoff
The question is why the utterly beautiful generator was dropped?
overengineering, and not listening to the requests of people that would spend the most time using it, instead pandoring to the needs of figments of Erics imagination. The day Eric stopped listening to kernel developers, kernel developers stopped listening to Eric.
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One of the obvious problems is that it was python-based, and thus being slow and requiring python to be installed.
So what if it was written in C?
not an issue.
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Is it possible for it to get in before 2.6?
no. we're well into freeze now, and ripping out something of that size would be a major step backwards. Besides, Roman Zippel's kconfig work got merged instead, which is a large improvement over what we had in 2.4
Dave
Quoted 1 line · Samium Gromoff
The question is why the utterly beautiful generator was dropped?
It required a complete mangling of the config files It didn't include automated tools to do it It required python2
It didn't support alternative config tools And a few other things
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So what if it was written in C?
It would look something like the Qt and Gtk tools we have, and improving those is a good thing.