Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

[Keith Owens]

On Fri, 18 May 2001 14:41:22 -0400, 
"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Michael Elizabeth Chastain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> It would be nice if either (a) the tools ran with Python 1.5.2 or (b)
>> some more time elapses and lots more people have Python 2.0 installed.
>
>I think we'll get (b).  2.5 will be bleeding edge by definition; I'm not
>worried about anyone working on an unstable branch being unable to 
>install Python 2.0.  And 2.6 is 18 to 24 months out.  By the time 
>Python 2.0 is needed for a stable-branch build, it will be ubiquitous.

Please, please never loose sight of the requirement for kbuild to work
on non-Linux platforms.  People cross compile kernels from Solaris,
HP/UX, Cygwin, etc.  kbuild should run on any platform that has gcc,
binutils and textutils.  Any requirements to build a kernel beyond that
list starts getting awkward.


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