Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 17:45:40 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up |
| |
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > It would. Because people who like the old config would continue to use the > > old tools > > Excuse me?
> Do you really believe that anyone is going to maintain the CML1 tools > for as long as a nanosecond after they get dropped out of the kernel tree?
I hereby volunteer to maintain at least make oldconfig and make config, and perhaps make menuconfig.
> Even supposing somebody were loony enough to do that, how would preserving > an old interface in amber do anything to explore new UI possibilities?
kernel != GUI
There are plenty of UI kernel configurators out there. Good ones. Bad ones. LOOK AT THEM. FIX THEM if you don't like them. But PLEASE don't even think about taking the current, very useful for advanced users, tools away without offering something of at least the same capabilities.
> Perhaps I'm just unusually dense this morning.
Given the rest of this thread, unusual is not the word that comes to my mind (sorry, open door and you asked for it) - 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/
|  |