Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:38:27 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Perl in the toolchain |
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On 2003.01.31 Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:26PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > > Generally, we've been trying to not make perl a prequisite for the kernel > > build, and I'd like to keep it that way. Except for some arch specific > > That's pretty much out the window when klibc gets merged, so perl will > indeed be a build requirement for all platforms... >
So in short, kernel people: - do not want perl in the kernel build - allow qt to pollute the kernel to have a decent gui config tool - have to rewrite half perl features in C - but perl will be needed anyways
instead of - do all parsing in perl, that is what perl is for and what is mainly done in kconfig scripts - do the config backend in perl, and... - do the gui in perl-XXX, so you can have perl-GTK, perl-GTK2, perl-QT or perl-Tk, even perl-Xaw (so you get rid of tcl/tk)
I really do not understand...
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