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SubjectRe: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:50:45PM +0100, Ra?l N??ez de Arenas Coronado wrote:

> >The spec for CML2 is out there, and there's even a CML2-in-C project.
>
> How advanced? Where is the spec, please?

I'm not sure how far the C version is, the spec is:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/cml2-reference.html

> >> The kernel should depend just on the compiler and assembler, IMHO.
> >The right tools for the right job. C is good for the kernel. Python is
> >good at manipulating strings.
>
> Well, IMHO Python is good only in being big and doing things
> slow, but... why the parser cannot be built over flex/bison?. That
> way it can be 'pregenerated' and people won't need additional tools
> to build the kernel.

ESR didn't feel it was the right choice, basically.

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