Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:32:17 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: linux kernel config converter |
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Roman Zippel wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > FWIW a much better transition path is very close to what your tool does, > > and is a suggestion made by mec (kbuild maintainer) near the end of the > > recent flamewar: convert config.in files one at a time, like we did the > > old makefiles. > > That's possible, as soon as the menu information is added, both formats > contain the same information, so a program with two parsers can handle > both simultaneously.
yep
> > That would imply a rewrite of make [old]config, and an updating of make > > menu|xconfig, to handle the new format... > > I think we should just dump the old tools and implement a single config > library, which exports an interface to access the config information.
I do not think we can -avoid- dumping scripts/Configure[1], replacing the existing tools. In that respect I agree with Eric and the others. So your proposition makes sense. But the configuration language can and should be migrated, IMO.
Jeff
[1] Sure you could code a replacement parser in bash shell script. But that's just wanking, like a Georgia Tech professor of mine: he implemented a visual Towers of Hanoi solver in vi macros. We all thought it was cool but ultimately CS wanking of no real value :)
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