Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>:
> This is something I never understood. CML1 has served us for
> 10 years or so, and suddenly its declared "unfixable".
Yes, and not by me. By the people who wrote it.
> "I'm not hacking that, I'll fix it in CML2" seemed to become
> the attitude. End result ? Linus got pissed off with your
> complaints of non-inclusion, and _fixed_ one of the CML1 problems
> (Configure.help) And how long did it take ? ISTR it was around
> an hour after his first mail was sent to you, me & Jeff.
> 1 hour. Versus the year you spent procrastinating about how
> CML2 would fix it.
>
> Sure CML2 fixes some bits that are not easily fixed in CML1,
> but I wonder sometimes how much of it is/was fixable.
The first thing I heard, from mec two years ago, was "the CML1 code
base is not salvageable". This was then and is now the unanimous opinion of
the kbuild team. Not just mine; in fact, they concluded it before
I entered the picture.
I have seen nothing since to make me change that opinion.
-- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Feb 15 2002 - 21:01:09 EST