Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Adam J. Richter" <> | Date | Sat, 17 Aug 2002 06:02:16 -0700 | Subject | Re: IDE? |
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I just looked at the patch to switch to "2.4 forward port" version of drivers/ide. If I got my shell commands right, Martin's tree is 8606 lines shorter than the 2.4 forward port.
2.4 forward port 49,205 lines Martin's version 40,599 lines ------------ 8,606 lines difference
It's often amazing how much cleaning up it takes to shrink code a little bit. Shrinking the IDE tree this much is a lot of work to throw away.
In comparison, I think Niklaus Wirth's Modula-2 compiler for the Lilith machine was 5,000 lines.
Is the 2.5.31 IDE tree that buggy? I would hope that stamping out bugs from Martin's tree would be less work than cleaning up the 2.4 version to that point again.
>If you can work with him, then it would seem he would be well suited for >the job... Assuming he wants it... Bartlomiej?
I'd be quite relieved if we could convince Bartlomiej to adopt Martin's tree and continue with Martin's tree as at least a configuration option.
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