I just looked at the patch to switch to "2.4 forward port"
version of drivers/ide. If I got my shell commands right, Martin's
tree is 8606 lines shorter than the 2.4 forward port.
2.4 forward port 49,205 lines
Martin's version 40,599 lines
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8,606 lines difference
It's often amazing how much cleaning up it takes to shrink
code a little bit. Shrinking the IDE tree this much is a lot of
work to throw away.
In comparison, I think Niklaus Wirth's Modula-2 compiler for
the Lilith machine was 5,000 lines.
Is the 2.5.31 IDE tree that buggy? I would hope that stamping
out bugs from Martin's tree would be less work than cleaning up
the 2.4 version to that point again.
>If you can work with him, then it would seem he would be well suited for
>the job... Assuming he wants it... Bartlomiej?
I'd be quite relieved if we could convince Bartlomiej to
adopt Martin's tree and continue with Martin's tree as at least
a configuration option.
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