Re: [PATCH] [ANNOUNCE] kconfig: Kconfiglib: a flexible Python Kconfig parser

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On 02/04/2011 04:35 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> The patch should be preferably be applied to a recent kernel, i.e. Linus's
>> (2.6.38-rc3 at the time of writing).  Due to recent Kconfig changes, the
>> kconfigtest.py test suite - which compares output character-for-character -
>> will indicate failure on older (a few months old) kernels versions even though
>> the outputs are functionally equivalent.
>>
>>  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt |    5 +
>>  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt          |    8 +
>>  README                                    |   13 +
>>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile                  |   26 +-
>>  scripts/kconfig/kconfiglib.py             | 3918 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  scripts/kconfig/kconfigtest.py            |  396 +++
>>  6 files changed, 4365 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/kconfiglib.py
>>  create mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/kconfigtest.py

Wait, I thought this was an extra standalone library.  Are you saying
you want to make it so Linux will no longer compile on a build machine
that doesn't have Python installed?

If this is merely an extra developer tool ala bloat-o-meter and
checkpatch.pl then it's merely uninteresting to me.  (I myself wrote a
quick and dirty http://kernel.org/doc/make/menuconfig2html.py to
generate http://kernel.org/doc/menuconfig/x86.html and friends years
ago, and I still run it to update that once in a while.  There's not
much to it.)

But adding new prerequities to a build machine would be really annoying
for my use cases.

Rob