Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:13:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:13:38 -0400 Received: from smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.139]:63756 "EHLO smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:13:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3D7E7D5F.F37D2D49@linux-m68k.org> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 01:16:47 +0200 From: Roman Zippel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel , kbuild-devel Subject: linux kernel conf 0.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1856 Lines: 37 Hi, At http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/lkc-0.5.tar.gz you can find the latest version of the new config system. Besides various small bug fixes, it includes the following changes: - Improved mouse interface of qconf - qconf isn't build if QT isn't available - "if" ... "endif" block added - update to 2.5.35 With the exception of the X interface I'm not planning any big visible changes anymore, so slowly I'd like to know any reason, why this config system shouldn't go into 2.5.x. The old arguments against cml2 don't really work anymore, so you have to come up with something new. :-) The only argument I know of is that various people on kbuild mailing list are afraid, that Linus wouldn't accept such a big change. I think hardly anyone cares how the config backend is implemented, so the only really visible change is the new config format, but here only the format is new, the information is still the same (if anyone cares about the subtle differences, I can explain them separately). Making a clear cut now is really the easiest solution. Changing parsers and syntax separately would be more painful, as we risks constants subtle behaviour changes and bugs during this period, by doing a single switch we can quickly get over it. Otherwise the little feedback I got was mostly positive, so if anything thinks the old config system is in any way better, I'd really like to know about it now (and if anyone wants to keep the old system, (s)he just volunteered to fix all the subtle differences between the three different parsers). So unless I hear objections rather soon, it's up to Linus. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/