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 12:35:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:35:45 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:2569 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:35:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:34:13 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Alan Cox Cc: Keith Owens , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up Message-ID: <20010518123413.I14309@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Alan Cox , Keith Owens , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010518115839.E14309@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:01:57PM +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox : > > I think you're confusing a couple of different issues here, Alan. Even > > supposing CML2 could parse CML1 rulesets, the design question about how > > configuration *should* work (that is, what kind of user experience we > > want to create and who we optimize ruleset design for) wouldn't go away. > > It would. Because people who like the old config would continue to use the > old tools Excuse me? Alan, it sounds very much like you just said something stupid. This seems sufficiently unlikely that I am shaking my head in disbelief and fingernailing wax out of both ears (and if you think doing both those things at once is easy try it sometime :-)). Do you really believe that anyone is going to maintain the CML1 tools for as long as a nanosecond after they get dropped out of the kernel tree? Even supposing somebody were loony enough to do that, how would preserving an old interface in amber do anything to explore new UI possibilities? Perhaps I'm just unusually dense this morning. -- Eric S. Raymond Alcohol still kills more people every year than all `illegal' drugs put together, and Prohibition only made it worse. Oppose the War On Some Drugs!