Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:29:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:29:01 -0500 Received: from tomts11.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.55]:34218 "EHLO tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:29:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:37:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@dell To: Tomas Szepe cc: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: why the new config process is a *big* step backwards In-Reply-To: <20030113153212.GB12500@louise.pinerecords.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote: > Robert, > > please study scripts/kconfig/*, not how one particular frontend is. > The new kernel configurator is actually a big improvement over the > traditional stuff we used to have up to 2.4. Okay, it is a fact that > xconfig is far from great, but that doesn't matter -- the important > thing is Kconfig provides a clean, generic system for the actual kernel > configuration. As I already pointed out a fortnight ago or so, the > only config frontend likely to stay in linux.tar in the long run is > menuconfig, serving as a reference to userland people who are certain > to come up with heaps of different Kconfig frontends (that is when > 2.6 ships I guess). > > If you need a nifty graphical frontend right away, I suggest you > go ahead and write the first off-tree xconfig. ok, point taken. i'll take a look at it, thanks. rday - 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/