Re: Perl in the toolchain

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 18:40:40 EST


J.A. Magallon wrote:
> As someone said, parsing and string processing is one of the jobs in kernel
> config. Kernel gurus decided to rewrite the thing in C to avoid the lacks
> in the current bash-ish kconfig, because writing logic for dependencies,
> checks and so on is a pain...so let's rewrite the logic handling, _and_ the
> string processing, btw.
> The easies way (from my point of view): write Perl::KConfig in C to do the logic
> hard work and build the big thing in perl. That will be putting a perl
> interface on top of klibc ?

_Any_ rewrite is pure pedantry and useless work.

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