From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263542AbTDDKwG (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:52:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263543AbTDDKwG (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:52:06 -0500 Received: from [213.171.53.133] ([213.171.53.133]:47886 "EHLO gulipin.miee.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263542AbTDDKv5 (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:51:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:04:10 +0400 From: Samium Gromoff To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Eric Raymond`s CML2 configuration generator Message-Id: <20030404140410.52717dad.deepfire@ibe.miee.ru> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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