Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:28:44 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: linux kernel conf 0.8 |
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote:
| [Roman Zippel] | > The problem is that the config syntax will continue to evolve and | > currently I prefer to keep the library close to the matching config | > files. | > I think I can keep the basic structure constant, but new options will be | > added, so IMO it's more likely that a front end works with a newer | > library than that a library can understand a newer syntax. | | Besides which, I think it is ridiculous that one would have to download | and install a "kernel configurator" just to build a kernel. Current | minimum requirements for compiling the thing are gcc, binutils and GNU | make. The kernel can't very well ship a copy of any of those, because | (a) they're huge and (b) they're useful for many things other than | building kernels. Roman's library is neither.
Well, we all find some things more ridiculous than others, but...
The kernel would still have the text-mode configurator. This only applies to the GUI kernel config. So you wouldn't have to download the kernel config unless you just wanted that oh-so-pretty GUI to config it.
[rhetorical question:] So should it be shipped with a full Qt development environment, e.g.?
| (And no, "modutils" isn't a counterexample - you can build, install and | run a kernel without it.)
-- ~Randy "In general, avoiding problems is better than solving them." -- from "#ifdef Considered Harmful", Spencer & Collyer, USENIX 1992.
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