From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 27 19:17:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA20111 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:17:02 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA20099 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:16:59 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA05087; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:15:20 -0700 To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) cc: Brian Tao , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel configuration/compilation tool In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 1995 20:56:31 CDT." Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:15:20 -0700 Message-ID: <5085.806897720@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Not today :-( Maybe next .... (sometime) > But we should not be building any new mechanisms that are incompatible with > that goal. I'm not sure that we'd even know HOW, so let's not get too enamoured of any hypothetical interfaces here.. It's long been felt that config has to die, and perhaps there will be enough push to do so when FreeBSD adopts its first non-i386 platform port. I still think that a config front-end utility, i386-centric or not, would be a Good Thing. After all, we're still waiting to see Richard's mythical Makefile reorg which seems to have died due to an over-ambitious mandate by the author.. :-) Jordan