Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:40:40 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Perl in the toolchain |
| |
J.A. Magallon wrote: > As someone said, parsing and string processing is one of the jobs in kernel > config. Kernel gurus decided to rewrite the thing in C to avoid the lacks > in the current bash-ish kconfig, because writing logic for dependencies, > checks and so on is a pain...so let's rewrite the logic handling, _and_ the > string processing, btw. > The easies way (from my point of view): write Perl::KConfig in C to do the logic > hard work and build the big thing in perl. That will be putting a perl > interface on top of klibc ?
_Any_ rewrite is pure pedantry and useless work.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |