Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5
Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:36:20 -0500
Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@dplanet.ch>:
> > Oops. I wasn't going to tell anyone this yet, but since you've made
> > this argument I feel I must be up front here....
> >
> > After CML2 has proven itself in 2.5, I do plan to go back to Marcelo
> > and lobby for him accepting it into 2.4, on the grounds that doing so
> > will simplify his maintainance task no end. That's why I'm tracking
> > both sides of the fork in the rulebase, so it will be an easy drop-in
> > replacement for Marcelo as well as Linus.
>
> Don't do it!
> A stable kernel should be stable also on the building tools.
That will be Marcelo's call, not mine.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
The kind of charity you can force out of people nourishes about as much as
the kind of love you can buy --- and spreads even nastier diseases.
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