Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:29:00 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970602121811.28943M-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19970601135029.3276.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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On 1 Jun 1997, mark thompson wrote: > I have used Linux's make config, and i don't like it much. Frankly, it > is nicer to sit in emacs with LINT on the screen and copy stuff to my > own config... LINT generally contains enough comments to figure out what > i need and don't... unlike make config. Possibly the main reason I stopped using Linux was the incredibly crappy make a kernel tool that came with Slackware 2.3 (the 1.2.8 kernel according to this CD here, apparently with the ELF beta, so quite old..) Anyway, no matter how old this was, it was the worst config tool I ever saw, none of it made sense and it gave less info than the comments in LINT. (which I beleive are actually quite good, or enough for me.) > > But to contribute something new to the discussion, though it is > something very small, please provide a bunch of config files, but please > make sure that all of the config files have stuff in the same order, so > they can be diff'ed. (NB: this was not true of LINT and GENERIC the last > time i cared). > > -mark I don't think providing a BUNCH of config files would be as clear, perhaps having documentation to go with LINT, (perhaps to the extent of the book by greg lehey that came with the 2.1.5 CD or more?). At the moment LINT has comments, DOCUMENTATION is preferable to comments. I'd love to know what this does without having to read the code : options SI_DEBUG options SPX_HACK Helpful? No! In fact in this LINT there are about 30 lines which explicitly say undocumented. Writing docs is boring to some, but answering the same question 100 times is also boring. Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. E: steve@visint.co.uk M: +44 (0) 976 241 342 T: +44 (0) 117 973 0597 F: +44 (0) 117 923 8522 He who has a dog to worship him should have a cat to ignore him
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