david parsons <orc@pell.portland.or.us>:
> > 1,976,362 CML1 tools (with generated tk files needed to run)
>
> "with generated tk files needed to run"
>
> So, you're stating that I need tk to run the existing configuration
> tools? I really really hate to have to break this to you, but you
> don't need tk to configure a Linux kernel, even if you do the
> configuration from inside X Windows.
I'm well aware of this. But I was trying to compare apples to apples.
> > Another thing we see is that anybody who'd take Perl over Python
> > on size-economy grounds is smoking serious drugs and should be taken
> > somewhere to calm down.
>
> Perl has already oozed its way into the kernel, so we're stuck
> with it already.
As others have pointed out, Perl has only "oozed" into auxilliary stuff
not needed to do a build.
> > Why am I including Tcl/Tk?
>
> Because you've been working with that hammer for so long that that
> long sharp pointy thing with an engraved cross on the head must be
> a nail?
Ghods, no. cmlconfigure is exactly the second Tcl/Tk program I have
written. I don't *like* Tcl/Tk, but I can live with it.
Again, let's compare apples to apples. Maybe you want to throw away xconfig
entirely. Maybe *I* want to. It's not realistically possible.
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