Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:53:11PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 09 June 2008 16:27:29 Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> > > I submitted a patch to remove the use of perl to build the linux kernel
> > > (which HPA added in 2.6.25) not because it affected the result, but
> > > because it unnecessarily complicates the build system.  (And perl tends
> > > to metasticize.
> >
> > Thanks, I hope it is or gets accepted.
> 
> Nope, Peter Anvin shot it down (saying what I was doing was a strange, purely 
> academic exercise), and Sam Ravnborg announced his vague intention to rewrite 
> large chunks of kbuild in perl in the future.  (Because nothing 
> says "maintainability" like perl...)
> 
> For some reason they wanted to mail me about it off-list rather than cc:ing 
> the list about this plan.
Rob - please reread the mails. It was your broken mailer or something
that caused it to be off-list.
When I hit reply-to-all in mutt I expect it to be sent to the list -
and in your case it did not not hit the list.

> 
> A number of embedded people emailed me about it off list, but nobody ever 
> replied to my post _on_ the list to say I wasn't alone in this, or acked the 
> patch to say it worked for them, or anything like that.  So there was a 
> perception of zero support, and I gave up trying to follow up on it for 
> 2.6.25.  I've got it working for me, and if more perl shows up I'll come up 
> with more patches to remove it for my own personal build environment.
> 
> I might try to submit again in a few months
Then please try to address the comments first.

	Sam