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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: John Stoffel <stoffel@casc.com>,
	cate@dplanet.ch, CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:04:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010503120416.H31960@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <stoffel@casc.com> <200105031232.f43CW7aA009990@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <200105031232.f43CW7aA009990@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>; from vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:32:07AM -0400

Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>:
> If you support broken configurations in any way, your program is just
> wildly guessing what they did mean. The exact (and very probably not in any
> way cleanly thought out) behaviour in corner cases then becomes "the way
> things work", and we end up in an unmaintainable mess yet again.

Yes, this is precisely what I fear.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

Rapists just *love* unarmed women.  And the politicians who disarm them.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-03 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-27 23:35 CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-29 15:12 ` John Stoffel
2001-04-29 22:35   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-29 22:43     ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30  7:52     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-04-30  8:03       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 16:17         ` volodya
2001-04-30 16:28   ` John Stoffel
2001-04-30 17:39     ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 19:16       ` Peter Samuelson
2001-04-30 19:25         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-01  9:23           ` Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-05-01 16:31             ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-01 21:35               ` Olivier Galibert
2001-05-01 22:26                 ` Tom Rini
2001-05-02 13:32         ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-05-02 17:49           ` Eric S. Raymond
     [not found]         ` <200 <3AF00C53.5EEE8E01@math.ethz.ch>
2001-05-02 20:12           ` John Stoffel
2001-05-03  7:04             ` Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03  7:34               ` Urban Widmark
2001-05-03  7:46                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 14:33                   ` Juan Quintela
2001-05-03 16:16                     ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 22:20                   ` Mike Castle
2001-05-03 12:32             ` Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] Horst von Brand
2001-05-03 12:47               ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 13:24                 ` Horst von Brand
2001-05-03 14:40                   ` Juan Quintela
2001-05-03 16:07                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 16:04               ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-05-03 17:36                 ` Alan Cox
     [not found] ` <15084.12830.973535.153706@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
2001-04-29 22:41   ` CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30  1:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-04-30  1:41   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30  2:13     ` [kbuild-devel] " John Cowan
2001-04-30  2:24     ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30  5:41       ` David Emory Watson
2001-04-30  5:50         ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30  6:12           ` David Emory Watson
2001-04-30  6:53             ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30  7:11               ` [OT] " Jeff Garzik
2001-04-30  7:17               ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 15:54                 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 10:57               ` John Cowan
2001-04-30 14:25               ` Kai Henningsen
2001-04-30 13:30             ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-30 13:29           ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-30  7:05       ` volodya
2001-04-30  7:23         ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30  7:40           ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30  9:09             ` [Moving rapidly offtopic] " Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-04-30 16:16             ` nick
2001-04-30 17:12               ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 17:20                 ` [OT] " Jeff Garzik
2001-04-30 17:25                   ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-30 19:44                 ` [kbuild-devel] " Gerhard Mack
2001-04-30 19:47                   ` nick
2001-04-30  3:26     ` volodya
2001-04-30  8:13     ` Anton Altaparmakov

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