Re: [KBUILD] Re: Announcing CML2, a replacement for the kbuild system

From: Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 21:32:17 EDT

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    David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>:
    > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
    >
    > > > I agree; why CAN'T we configure the linux kernel more like we do the
    > > > BSD ones? Their code and schema is very elegant and simple. And
    > >
    > > The BSD setup is not end user friendly. There is actually only one
    > > fundamental end user problem with our current setup. When a user says
    > > 'I want XYZ' it should turn on everything needed to get XYZ.
    >
    > Of course, informing the user that it does so and *WHY* would be a good
    > idea too. Somewhat like dselect but without all the bugs and hassles
    > (dselect has a lot of them, hence I use apt-get instead.)

    The tty mode of CML2 gives you this kind of feedback when you hit a
    constraint violation. I'm working on making the feedback more informative.

    Again, this is the sort of thing that requires an atemporal, declarative
    view of the world rather than a temporal, imperative one. Which is why
    the change to the CML2 language is really important -- it makes doing
    dselect-like things possible. 

    -- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
	-- T.S. Elliot

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