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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 07:39:29 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add a Coccinelle front-end script
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To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
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Julia Lawall schrieb:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
>>> Don't know how complex the coccinelle software itself is, but I think it
>>> would make sense to ship it with the kernel-sources too. That together
>> You can easily find out by browsing the homepage of coccinelle.
> 
> Over 100 000 lines of code.
> 
> julia
> --

coccinelle is a great programm and should have its own repository.
I don not thing thats a clever idea to integrate it directly into
the kernel source tree. IMHO it would hinder the development of coccinelle
in the long term.

re,
 wh