RE: The real challenge ;)

[Charles Crain]

Actually it's funny you mention this...one of the Scons developers
posted a very convincing April Fool's joke that Linus had decided to use
Scons to build the Linux kernel.  Not only am I a Scons developer
myself, but I know the poster in real life.  I still fell for it.

Anyway, I have heard a couple of times that Linus is entirely
uninterested in a Python-dependent build process.  I don’t know if he
has something against Python in particular, or scripting languages in
general, or if he just really likes GNU make, or what.  It is kinda
weird, because they *are* using Python in some kind of kernel
configuration tool in 2.5, but the name escapes me.

-Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On
Behalf Of Asko Kauppi
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 5:41 PM
To: 'address@hidden'
Subject: The real challenge ;)



Following this cons-or-scons debate, I think the real "challenge" for
both of the tools is to take over the position of 'make' as the official
Linux-kernel-distribution-dependency-tool. There's a lot of
subdirectories and interdependent makefiles in the Linux tree. Seems
like a perfect target for you guys!

Has anyone been in contact with Linus about this and what's his
intensions? Gettin (s)cons into that business would give a lot of more
publicity and general approvement to whatever tool manages to take on
that job. Good luck!

- Asko

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Asko Kauppi
Flextronics Design Finland
Box 23, 39201 Kyröskoski, Finland
www.flextronics.com 


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