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Posted Feb 7, 2011 17:47 UTC (Mon) by daniel (guest, #3181)
Parent article: Kconfiglib

"There are currently no Python dependencies in the kernel build system; trying to add one could well run into opposition."

That's a troll, Jon.

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Posted Feb 7, 2011 17:52 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Umm, no. C.f CML2

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Posted Feb 7, 2011 17:54 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Its dependence on python was one of the arguments against CML2. Of course, that was a decade ago - the spread of python in the intervening time should make the argument less relevant, but Jon's entirely right that adding a python dependency could result in pushback.

Troll?

Posted Feb 7, 2011 21:03 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Excuse me for being dense, but...exactly how is that a troll? I intended it as a pretty straightforward statement of fact.

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Posted Feb 10, 2011 14:43 UTC (Thu) by ariveira (guest, #57833) [Link] (2 responses)

People is actively removing even dependencies on perl in some parts of the
linux kernel (build) https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/16/115
So yes i would say that adding python will find some resistenace

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Posted Feb 10, 2011 20:35 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link] (1 responses)

I can well understand that for the build itself, but as this is an additional tool, why there would be resistance for it?

One of the nice things of python code is that you don't need to (cross-)compile it, it works as-is on any Linux/architecture (which has python interpreter).

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Posted Feb 10, 2011 20:39 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

in part, because when you are trying to bootstrap a new machine you don't have all the tools ported to the new platform yet.

it's hard to run python on a machine that python hasn't been ported to.