Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2002-02-16T09:06:28Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> "Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
>
>>The first thing I heard, from mec two years ago, was "the CML1 code
>>base is not salvageable". This was then and is now the unanimous opinion of
>>the kbuild team. Not just mine; in fact, they concluded it before
>>I entered the picture.
>>
>>I have seen nothing since to make me change that opinion.
>>
>
> So Alan Cox's opinion counts as nothing?
> mconfig counts as nothing?

Why mconfig is not in the kernel? who maintain mconfig?
Why the first maintainer of mconfig prefer CML2?

>
> I'm sure CML2 configurator is whiz-bang, but it needs to do basic stuff
> like having "make oldconfig" work exactly like it does in the current
> config system.

now CML2 oldconfig behave like actual code. I would say too much.

giacomo