From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:54:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:54:03 -0400 Received: from mail.reutershealth.com ([204.243.9.36]:12229 "EHLO mail.reutershealth.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:53:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3B054500.2090408@reutershealth.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:51:28 -0400 From: John Cowan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jes Sorensen CC: esr@thyrsus.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up In-Reply-To: <20010505192731.A2374@thyrsus.com> <20010513112543.A16121@thyrsus.com> <20010515173316.A8308@thyrsus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jes Sorensen wrote: > Telling them to install an updated gcc for kernel compilation > is a necessary evil, which can easily be done without disturbing the > rest of the system. Updating the system's python installation is not a > reasonable request. Au contraire. It is very reasonable to have both python and python2 installed. Having two different gcc versions installed is a big pain in the arse. > So far I haven't heard a single > developer say something positive about CML2, the most positive I have > heard so far has been "whatever", "it's his choice", "I don't care", > "I want to hack". The majority are of the "NO!" and "you got to be > kiddin'". Anonymized hearsay evidence is less than convincing. > Let's just say you didn't exactly give peoiple a good impression with > the trolling around on how everybody had to change their option names > and how important it was for the world. Decidedly bad form to criticize someone for a bug (in this case, a design bug) that's already been fixed. If that behavior starts, who shall escape hanging? > I do not have Python2 installed and I do not plan to, if you > change CML2 to use a reasonable programming language I might give it a > try. Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it. John Cowan, _novus homo_ (Latin for "upstart") -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein