Re: [KBUILD] Re: Announcing CML2, a replacement for the kbuild system

From: Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 21:46:27 EST


Christopher Smith <x@xman.org>:
>On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:22:18PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>> CML2 is aimed at this. It will never be perfect -- perfection would require
>> a full theorem prover -- but it's already good enough to handle normal
>> ancestry relationships.
>
> Perhaps a CML2 engine should be written in ML to solve this problem?
> ;-)

Not necessary. CML2 0.2.0 actually includes a theorem prover that does
substitution and algebraic reduction on the constraints and then forces
variables based on the resulting relational assertions.

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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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