From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263685AbTDDLzM (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 06:55:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263686AbTDDLzM (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 06:55:12 -0500 Received: from deviant.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.238]:48061 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263685AbTDDLzD (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 06:55:03 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:06:09 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Samium Gromoff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Eric Raymond`s CML2 configuration generator Message-ID: <20030404120452.GA12796@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Samium Gromoff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030404140410.52717dad.deepfire@ibe.miee.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030404140410.52717dad.deepfire@ibe.miee.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:04:10PM +0400, Samium Gromoff wrote: > The question is why the utterly beautiful generator was dropped? overengineering, and not listening to the requests of people that would spend the most time using it, instead pandoring to the needs of figments of Erics imagination. The day Eric stopped listening to kernel developers, kernel developers stopped listening to Eric. > One of the obvious problems is that it was python-based, and thus being slow and > requiring python to be installed. > So what if it was written in C? not an issue. > Is it possible for it to get in before 2.6? no. we're well into freeze now, and ripping out something of that size would be a major step backwards. Besides, Roman Zippel's kconfig work got merged instead, which is a large improvement over what we had in 2.4 Dave