Re: Announcing CML2, a replacement for the kbuild system

From: Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 16:59:57 EST


Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.clara.co.uk>:
> Why not write a C program to interpret CML2? - I assume that if you have
> the kernel sources, you already have a C compiler around. That at least,
> is the minimum one should aim for.

I can in fact generate C programs to compile and interpret CML -- by applying
freeze.py to the Python sources.

There would thus be no gain at all -- and lots of pain -- in trying to do this
in straight C. I considered the alternatives carefully.

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