Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 21:54:58 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> Cc: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? Message-ID: <24904.881819698@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:00:15 PST." <19971210160015.21473@micron.mini.net>
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> What I have in mind is rather simple, but it requires the following : > > 1) a file, which is MAINTAINED, which contains all of the possible > options, their classes, and a simple comment for each one. Woog. It's that "maintained" bit which is the hard part, and frankly I'm more than somewhat skeptical of this for the long-term unless it's taken to the next level of functionality which will properly encourage its upkeep. What I'm thinking of here, namely, is the total replacement of config by a new utility which tries for a different configuration file format, one "rich" enough to support a GUI interface. This has always been a shortcoming of the current one, and the need to keep GENERIC and LINT files around just to "document" it is rather significant proof of its shortcomings. If you're really this ambitious then tou won't get anywhere by simply trying to paper over config, you need to replace it. Jordan
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