From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263694AbTDDMK5 (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:10:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263701AbTDDMK4 (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:10:56 -0500 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:26504 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263694AbTDDMHy (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:07:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Eric Raymond`s CML2 configuration generator From: Alan Cox To: Samium Gromoff Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030404140410.52717dad.deepfire@ibe.miee.ru> References: <20030404140410.52717dad.deepfire@ibe.miee.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1049455192.2150.7.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 04 Apr 2003 12:19:53 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.