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Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>:
> There is no CML1 maintainer.  There are people maintaining the different
> tools intepreting CML1.  Some (e.g. the intree ones) are to ugly to consider,
> others are pretty nice.

I was referring to Michael Elizabeth Chastain, Keith Owens, and the other
people on the kbuild list who officially maintain the CML1 tools in the 
kernel tree.  The same people who took up my offer to attempt a better 
alternative to CML1 eighteen months ago.

And, by the way, there is no CML1 :-).  Instead, there are four
mutually incompatible dialects and a rulebase that breaks in different
ways depending on which interpreter you use.  Well, maybe just three
mutual incompatible dialects and one clone -- but it's notoriously
hard to verify that two interpreters have the same accept language, so
nobody knows for sure.
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