Messages in this thread | | | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] scripts: kernel-doc: Major kernel-doc rework | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:04:23 -0700 |
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Tomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@gmail.com> writes:
> I will prepare the POD part. As for the rest, you will need a porter if you > decide this is the way to go. I could help with explanations if something is > unclear and as long as the questions come soon. The winter is almost over and > I need to switch to other activities like earning money.
Understood.
> I understand. I didn't know there was a rewrite. I'm not into Python, but > if you could post a link, I'd take a look out of curiosity. > > If the community prefers Python, what can I say about this? Their choice.
This is the kernel community you're talking about - saying that it prefers any language (except possibly C) is asking for big-time trouble :)
*I* prefer Python, and the Sphinx side of things is necessarily in Python, so I'd be happy to see kernel-doc move over. That said, others certainly disagree.
Markus's work was here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1485287564-24205-1-git-send-email-markus.heiser@darmarit.de/
At the time, we were just trying to get the RST transition done, and swapping out the kernel-doc script seemed like a major distraction that we didn't need, so this never got looked at as seriously as I would have liked.
> Personally, I'd rather play with translating this script to Raku (aka > Perl 6).
Trying to add yet another language dependency is another path to unhappiness, we're not going to go there.
Thanks,
jon
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