Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

Eric S. Raymond
2002-02-16T14:26:25Z

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> However - the thing to which I and many others object most strongly is the
> rulebase policy changes which appear to be inseparable from the change in
> mechanism. That is; we've tried to get you to separate them, and failed.

Failed? Hardly.

The only rulebase policy change Tom Rini was able to identify in a recent
review was the magic behavior of EXPERT with respect to entries without
help. Which I then removed by commenting out a single declaration.

There is a widespread myth that the CML2 rulebase is lousy with "policy
changes". I don't know how it got started, but it needs to die now.

Maybe I need to write a CML2 FAQ.
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Eric S. Raymond