Messages in this thread | | | From | (John Alvord) | Subject | Re: Will 2.6 require Python for any configuration ? (CML2) | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:52:35 GMT |
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:31:26 -0400, Disconnect <lkml@sigkill.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel did have cause to say: > >> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Disconnect wrote: >> >> > ONLY task that they will use python for. And everyone who builds a kernel >> > will have gcc, so thats the 'ideal' dependency. Second and third most >> > likely, a C++ compiler or perl (depending on what you figure the >> > installbase of each one is). Forth, some form of java runtime. And after >> > that is python. >> >> Sounds like you'd just might be fanatical enough to implement >> CML2 in C or Perl, then ;) >> >> Personally, I'd welcome such a thing... > >You are mistaking my position I think. Personally, I like python quite a >bit ;) > >But my point isn't that its good/bad for CML2. My point is that I would >be very surprised if you had to install python in order to configure and >build a kernel under CML2, once CML2 is the official configuration >platform. (Right now it is necessary to have python to use cml2. But >CML2 is not yet in the stock kernel sources.) > >But until ESR either chimes in or releases the final CML2, this is a moot >discussion.
ESR is awaiting the 2.5 branch and the makefile rewrite.
My impression is that CML2 is "less bad" than CML in terms of weird languages and buggy interpreters.
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