Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Jeff Garzik
2002-01-30T19:42:36Z

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:40:25PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 January 2002 04:43 am, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:38:51AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > Considering how much he's been warned so far about the need for CML2 to
> > > maintain as much compatability as possible with CML1,
> >
> > Pardon me while I laugh my ass off.
>
> [waits...]

Keep waiting, I'm still laughing.

> I'm under the impression CML2 already supports the split-up per-directory
> help files, and did long before Linus actually split it up. Therefore, Eric
> hasn't entirely been ignoring the issue, has he?

>From the kernel's point of view, yes, he has.

> (By the way, if you really want to fix the current cml1 stuff in the
> cheesiest manner possible, what would be wrong with some variant of "find .
> -name "*.hlp" | xargs cat > oldhelpfile.hlp"? Then the old help file becomes
> a generated file of the new help files. Why mess with tcl/tk? Put it in the
> make file as a dependency. Pardon me if somebody fixed it last night, I seem
> have 91 emails to wade through since then on the patch penguin fallout
> alone...)

That's a hack. Fix it the right way.

<broken record> this is a devel series, we can afford to wait for the
better fix </broken record>

Jeff