Re: Linux-2.1.85: replacement PATCH for ibmmca

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:32:32 -0600


Hi Linus,

> I think somebody was looking into rewriting menuconfig in C, no?

That would be me. Work in progress:

<ftp://ftp.shout.net/pub/users/mec/experimental/new-config.diff>

Adam Heath announced that he's looking into this, too.

I have a question for you about that: what would you think of having
'make config' and 'make oldconfig' invoke the same C program?

Then I could have one front end with one parser with one uniform feature
set (e.g. range limits on integer input) and one documentation file that
describes the Config.in configuration language.

But if they are C programs, then 'make config' will require the user to
have a native C compiler and will take longer to start up. So I need
your opinion about this.

Regards,

Michael Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"
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