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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:38:27 +0100
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Perl in the toolchain
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On 2003.01.31 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:26PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > Generally, we've been trying to not make perl a prequisite for the kernel 
> > build, and I'd like to keep it that way. Except for some arch specific 
> 
> That's pretty much out the window when klibc gets merged, so perl will
> indeed be a build requirement for all platforms...
> 

So in short, kernel people:
- do not want perl in the kernel build
- allow qt to pollute the kernel to have a decent gui config tool
- have to rewrite half perl features in C
- but perl will be needed anyways

instead of
- do all parsing in perl, that is what perl is for and what is mainly done
  in kconfig scripts
- do the config backend in perl, and...
- do the gui in perl-XXX, so you can have perl-GTK, perl-GTK2, perl-QT or 
  perl-Tk, even perl-Xaw (so you get rid of tcl/tk)

I really do not understand...

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