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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Samium Gromoff <deepfire@ibe.miee.ru>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Eric Raymond`s CML2 configuration generator
Date: 04 Apr 2003 12:19:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049455192.2150.7.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030404140410.52717dad.deepfire@ibe.miee.ru>

On Gwe, 2003-04-04 at 11:04, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> 		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

> 		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.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-04 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-04 10:04 Samium Gromoff
2003-04-04 11:19 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-04-04 12:06 ` Dave Jones

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