On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:53:11PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 09 June 2008 16:27:29 Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> > > I submitted a patch to remove the use of perl to build the linux kernel
> > > (which HPA added in 2.6.25) not because it affected the result, but
> > > because it unnecessarily complicates the build system. (And perl tends
> > > to metasticize.
> >
> > Thanks, I hope it is or gets accepted.
>
> Nope, Peter Anvin shot it down (saying what I was doing was a strange, purely
> academic exercise), and Sam Ravnborg announced his vague intention to rewrite
> large chunks of kbuild in perl in the future. (Because nothing
> says "maintainability" like perl...)
>
> For some reason they wanted to mail me about it off-list rather than cc:ing
> the list about this plan.
Rob - please reread the mails. It was your broken mailer or something
that caused it to be off-list.
When I hit reply-to-all in mutt I expect it to be sent to the list -
and in your case it did not not hit the list.
>
> A number of embedded people emailed me about it off list, but nobody ever
> replied to my post _on_ the list to say I wasn't alone in this, or acked the
> patch to say it worked for them, or anything like that. So there was a
> perception of zero support, and I gave up trying to follow up on it for
> 2.6.25. I've got it working for me, and if more perl shows up I'll come up
> with more patches to remove it for my own personal build environment.
>
> I might try to submit again in a few months
Then please try to address the comments first.
Sam
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