From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:13:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:12:30 -0400 Received: from mx6.port.ru ([194.67.57.16]:59403 "EHLO mx6.port.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:12:18 -0400 From: "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Will 2.6 require Python for any configuration ? (CML2) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19 X-Originating-IP: [195.34.27.173] Reply-To: "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 01:12:33 +0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The main reason to include it, is that that's what it was done in. > If you go back and read the archives, ESR goes over why all sorts of > other languages wouldn't work as easily. in such cases the solution is to elaborate, and not to leave things to decay. > That wasn't my point at all. My point was that if you're somehow > transfering the 21mb source .tar.bz2'ed, you can also stand to transport > the 4mb of python 2.0.1 source, tar.gz'ed over as well. In other words, > having to bring python over any of the methods that Jes mentioned isn't > any more painful than the kernel source. It's roughly the size of a couple > of vmlinux'es. i was sarcastic here. actually the fact is that 4MB of tarred sources is more than 10 .c files doing the same thing 1.5x times faster. > Have you tried cml2 on your p166? ESR went and did much speed tweaking of > the code about 6 months ago it seems like and managed to please some of the > people using a low-end pentium. Building a kernel on a 386 isn't approcaching > tolerable right now anyhow. Someone pointed out today or yesterday it takes > ~10 days. it is not an excuse to make things even worser. > Python is no harder to maintain then C. actually i meant that "i hardly can believe that c in such task is harder to maintain than python". --- cheers, Samium Gromoff