Roman Zippel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> > Mutating the language, long-term, so that it looks less like sh [...]
>
> That doesn't solve any of the more fundamental problems.
Correct, it doesn't.
> 1) We still have 3 config parsers, which produce slightly different
> .config files.
Yes.
> 2) To integrate a new driver, you have to touch at least 3 files:
> Config.in, Config.help, Makefile. Properly configuring and building a
> driver outside of the tree is painful to impossible.
Yes.
> The problems are really not simple, the current config language is very
> limited, [...]
I don't think anyone who actually understands the config system would
argue these points, but we are limited by practical constraints to making
incremental improvements only.
Greg.
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