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 13:22:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 13:22:38 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:9808 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 13:22:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:22:27 -0400 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up Message-ID: <20010518132227.A24701@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20010518115839.E14309@thyrsus.com> <20010518123413.I14309@thyrsus.com> <3B0551B4.CB251F64@redhat.com> <20010518131707.N14309@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: <20010518131707.N14309@thyrsus.com>; from esr@thyrsus.com on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:17:07PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:17:07PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > It's been an ugly, nasty, horrible job -- *much* nastier, by an order > of magnitude, than designing and writing the CML2 engine. Going the > other direction would be worse. "Like chewing razor blades" is the > simile that leaps to mind. And you hope this will not be razorblades if Linus decides he likes CML2 ? > (And no, dropping back to CML1 format for the masters wouldn't be an > option; it doesn't have the semantic strength to enable CML2's new > capabilities.) Right now, it's now a dropping back. You seem to take for granted that CML2 and your python2 frontend to it are 2.5.0 material. I don't right now.