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Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>
Date: 22 Apr 2001 01:45:40 +0200
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>>>>> "Henning" == Henning P Schmiedehausen <mailgate@mail.hometree.net> writes:

Henning> "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
>> Here is an example map block for my kxref.py tool:

>> # %Map # T: CONFIG_ namespace cross-reference generator/analyzer #
>> P: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> # M: esr@thyrsus.com # L:
>> kbuild-devel@kbuild.sourceforge.net # W:
>> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2 # D: Sat Apr 21 11:41:52 EDT 2001 #
>> S: Maintained

>> Comments are solicited.

Henning> Hi Eric,

Henning> please not. If you really want to redo this, please use a
Henning> simple XML markup.  Let's not introduce another kind of
Henning> markup if there is already a well distributed and working.

Henning> What's wrong with:

DON'T! go there, please!

A) This sucks to write and maintain, B) it sucks for people bringing
up Linux on a minimum system or new architecture because they don't
want to have to install 217 XML and other tools to just be able to
configure and build a basic kernel.

Jes
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