From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 27 21:35:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA26548 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 21:35:07 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA26528 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 21:35:03 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA08807; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 14:19:17 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507280449.OAA08807@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Kernel configuration/compilation tool To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 14:19:16 +0930 (CST) Cc: jaitken@husky.cs.vt.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Jul 28, 95 08:31:15 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1805 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Tao stands accused of saying: > > As has been discussed in the newsgroups lately, a snazzy kernel > > configuration & compilation utility would be very nice. I just spoke > > with Jordan about it, and he wasn't aware of anyone working on such a > > beast. I've volunteered to at least take a crack at it, so if anyone's > > already started on the same project, let me know and I'll be glad to > > help. I've been tinkering with the idea off and on for a while; the real stress lies in designing the syntax for the options/devices/etc definition file, so that it can be parsed easily and yet be straightforward for new entries to be added. > Again, I'm joining in late... after tk4.0 was released and once a > friend of mine lent me his Tcl/Tk reference book, I decided that a > kernel config utility would be a nice "test project" to work on. I > haven't started it yet, but here are some thoughts. To do this 'right' will actually be fairly meaty project; you may want to use something like XF as a dialog designer to help your visualisation out. (This sort of thing requires multiple toplevels, which XF doesn't do so well, so you can't use it as a designer) Regardless, count me in as an interested party. I'd also be interested to know if there was much interest in a format/slice/partition/newfs/mount tool with a 'spiffy' frontend... > Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[