Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

That Linux Guy
2002-02-15T22:28:21Z

The amount of whining I've had to read today on this topic just astonishes
me. People, please - devote 1/10th of the energy to helping esr finish and
fix CML2 to meet Linus' expectations. Face the fact: CML1 was good for
it's time, but that time is now gone.

If you spent as much time helping to get CML2 up and going as some of you
have trying to kill it (while not offering anything constructive to replace
it) it would have been DONE 6 months ago.

Sometimes, this list is worse than the proverbial sewing circle.

> > As a result, I had to tell Marcelo I had no choice but to drop
maintaining
> > the 2.4 help file. The divergence, and the damage, is probably not
> > recoverable.
>
> Divergence and damage to a configure help file ?
>
> As someone who professes to be well-versed in social systems and their
> associated mechanics, I am sure you understand the notions of social
> contracts and the like. Thus, if we, as the developers who actually
> look at the Config.help, drop the changes then that is our problem. And
> if we don't care, then there must be nothing to care about.
>
> If Marcelo and Linus are not begging for Configure.help updates (like I
> beg for SCSI layer rewrites) then there is a reason.
>
> Robert Love
>
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