Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:59:46 -0500

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > Sure CML2 fixes some bits that are not easily fixed in CML1,
> > but I wonder sometimes how much of it is/was fixable.
>
> Pretty much all of it. I wrote a proof of concept parser that can deduce
> the set of rules that must be enforced and what must be changed when you
> hit an option

Alan. It didn't work. It couldn't have -- among other things, the old
language can't tell visibility from implication.

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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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