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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:18:38AM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> As far as CML2 versus an mconfig-based solution, I am tilted towards CML2,
> as it is simply a better language.  I would be happy with either choice
> if Linus made one of those choices.  I would be unhappy if 2.6/3.0
> continued to ship with Configure/menuconfig/xconfig.

Indepenand of wether 2.6 will use CML1 or CML2 I hope it won't ship with
the actual config tool.  It's so much nicer to have mconfig compiled once
in /usr/bin instead of compiling menuconfig all the time in the tree.

No to mention it's much easier to propagate bug fixes this way..

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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