Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

Jonathan Morton
2001-05-21T23:12:53Z

>If you run into a case where you have a config which would work, but
>CML2 doesn't let you, why don't you fix the grammar instead of saying
>CML2 is wrong? Let's not confuse these two issues as well.

Strongly agree. Especially since I'm pushing for an explicit recognition
of the difference between a hard dependancy and a soft derivation. The
latter can be over-ridden safely by someone who knows what he's after. The
former will cause a miscompile.

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