Re: Perl in the toolchain

Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:51:23 +0100 (CET)


Hi,

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> instead of
> - do all parsing in perl, that is what perl is for and what is mainly done
> in kconfig scripts
> - do the config backend in perl, and...

Parsing is only the very first step to generate the dependency tree, which
is used generate a consistent configuration, so most of the work are
dependency calculations.
BTW if we use a script language I prefer ruby. :)

bye, Roman

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