Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:39:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:39:39 -0500 Received: from dsl254-112-233.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.112.233]:45581 "EHLO golux.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:39:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:13:42 -0500 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Pavel Machek Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers Message-ID: <20020219161342.A2697@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Pavel Machek , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020215155946.B14083@thyrsus.com> <20020215164610.A14418@thyrsus.com> <20020219080416.GA133@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020219080416.GA133@elf.ucw.cz>; from pavel@suse.cz on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:04:17AM +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek : > What are you trying to say? New configuration system needs to be > tested by big company before you want to hear about it? No, of course not. Two of the three projects I cited are open-source developments. My point should have been obvious. Alan is talking as though his supposed "proof of concept" is as good an argument as a tested, production-quality system. Of course, it is not. -- Eric S. Raymond - 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/