Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-02-19T07:59:04Z

Matthias Andree wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
>
>>Make the whole thing ___***IDENTICAL***___ to CML1.
>>Do a formal translation of CML1 into CML2.
>>
>
> This requirement is contrary to CML2's objective. CML2 is not about
> re-implementing CML1 tools and bugs in another language, there are at
> least two current projects for that, one of them is mconfig.

But making the translation in 3 steps make think easier:
- Change the engine (CML2), the rules are rewritten, but
functionally nearly identical to old rules
(Big patch)
- Change the rules (with a lot of small patches)
- Change the interface (not really need)

giacomo