Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 07 Dec 2001 11:44:55 -0300


John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> dijo:

[...]

> You only need to learn Python if you are going to change the
> CML2 compiler or interpreter, not if you are just changing
> CML2.

I did look around in CML1 when I had some troubles way back. Turned out to
be my fault, or was fixed in the next patch, so I didn't contribute back.
Trouble is that another opaque tool makes hacking _harder_, and this in
turn turns hackers away, and the development suffers.

> You might as well complain that you must learn
> Python to hack GNU Mailman.

Just use majordomo ;-)

> CML2 hacking requires knowing Python; kernel hacking does not.

CML2 hacking _is_ kernel hacking, if you like to call it such or not.

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