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 15:45:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 15:45:45 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:38153 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 15:45:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:44:07 -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: <20010518154407.C17324@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: <20010518142508.B16093@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 08:13:04PM +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 : > Being able to turn CML2 into CML1 might be the more useful exercise. That's...not a completely crazy idea. Hmmm... It might be possible to take a CML2 rulebase and generate a sort of stupid jackleg CML1 translation of it. The resulting config.in would be huge and nasty, and would only work in forward sequence with no side-effect computation, but you just might be able to get the old tools to parse it. Again there's a technical problem with derivations. Probably solvable. But the real question is whether the old tools have enough value to be worth the effort. What problem are you trying to solve here? -- Eric S. Raymond This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.