Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:42:10 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:40:25PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2002 04:43 am, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:38:51AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > > Considering how much he's been warned so far about the need for CML2 to > > > maintain as much compatability as possible with CML1, > > > > Pardon me while I laugh my ass off. > > [waits...]
Keep waiting, I'm still laughing.
> I'm under the impression CML2 already supports the split-up per-directory > help files, and did long before Linus actually split it up. Therefore, Eric > hasn't entirely been ignoring the issue, has he?
From the kernel's point of view, yes, he has.
> (By the way, if you really want to fix the current cml1 stuff in the > cheesiest manner possible, what would be wrong with some variant of "find . > -name "*.hlp" | xargs cat > oldhelpfile.hlp"? Then the old help file becomes > a generated file of the new help files. Why mess with tcl/tk? Put it in the > make file as a dependency. Pardon me if somebody fixed it last night, I seem > have 91 emails to wade through since then on the patch penguin fallout > alone...)
That's a hack. Fix it the right way.
<broken record> this is a devel series, we can afford to wait for the better fix </broken record>
Jeff
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