Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

Horst von Brand
2001-12-07T14:45:34Z

John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> dijo:

[...]

> You only need to learn Python if you are going to change the
> CML2 compiler or interpreter, not if you are just changing
> CML2.

I did look around in CML1 when I had some troubles way back. Turned out to
be my fault, or was fixed in the next patch, so I didn't contribute back.
Trouble is that another opaque tool makes hacking _harder_, and this in
turn turns hackers away, and the development suffers.

> You might as well complain that you must learn
> Python to hack GNU Mailman.

Just use majordomo ;-)

> CML2 hacking requires knowing Python; kernel hacking does not.

CML2 hacking _is_ kernel hacking, if you like to call it such or not.
--
Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org
Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239
Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513