On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: | On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > | > stick with TCL/TK, like xconfig currently uses ? | | Too ugly. I actually think QT is a fine choice, I just suspect that it's | going to cause political issues. | | My favourite approach by far is to actually not ship anything graphical | with the kernel at all, and just hope that the config language syntax is | stable enough that different groups can do their own as external packages.
Good. I was this -><- close to suggesting "no GUI" -- just didn't send that part of the message. | The kernel would ship with just the text-based "reference implementation" | (if even that - we could just have a few "supporting packages"). | | The only thing I personally really care about is the Config language, | since that _has_ to ship with the kernel. So I think that you and Roman are close to agreement, when Roman has the library backend ready. Of course someone needs to do a "reference implementation" with it also, but it doesn't need to ship with the kernel. | Linus | | PS. And while we're talking about the language - I'd actually prefer the | syntax "depends on" or "requires" instead of "depends", to make it | grammatically more correct. And those help-texts should be separated some | way so that they don't blend in quite as badly with the "command section". | Maybe something really syntactic like just replacing the "help" keyword | with a "---help---" keyword. -- ~Randy "In general, avoiding problems is better than solving them." -- from "#ifdef Considered Harmful", Spencer & Collyer, USENIX 1992. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
