Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> The BSD setup is not end user friendly. There is actually only one
> fundamental end user problem with our current setup. When a user says
> 'I want XYZ' it should turn on everything needed to get XYZ.
>
> If I hit my capture card option it should turn on i2c, video4linux,procfs,
> etc
CML2 is aimed at this. It will never be perfect -- perfection would require
a full theorem prover -- but it's already good enough to handle normal
ancestry relationships.
One of the purposes of making the CML2 language declarative rather than
imperative is to make all the dependencies explicit, rather than implied
by control structure as in CML1. Because that's so, over time it will
be possible to improve the deductive algoritms in the front end without
having to endure another replacement of the language.
-- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
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