CML2 Coming in Kernel 2.5

MrHat writes: "Eric S. Raymond's CML2, or 'Configuration Menu Language' -- part of the next-generation Linux kernel build system -- is now officially ready for 2.5. CML2 includes a compiler for a domain-specific configuration language, used to configure kernel subsystems and resolve dependencies between them. CML2 and Linux 2.5 will 'ship' with several different configuration interfaces, including an adventure game, whipped up by ESR during an extended flight. The story from the horse's mouth (or LKML, if you prefer):'This release resolves all known logic bugs and rulebase problems. The only things left on the to-do list are convenience features and some minor improvements in the test/coverage tools. This code is now officially ready for the 2.5 fork.'"

Comments

Re:What's wrong with xconfig?

[kevinank]

The CML project got started when kernel developers started complaining about how hard it was to maintain the current configuration tool. The idea was to stop maintaining xconfig (and brethren), and move wholesale to CML.

That obviously hasn't happened yet, but mostly only because Eric decided to implement CML in Python which a number of kernel hackers refuse to install on their systems (originally because it wasn't GPL compatibly licensed, and these days probably ostensibly because it isn't GPL'd, but more likely because it has icky syntax and they don't want to learn it or reconfigure their editors to edit it.)

Anyway, the idea was not so much to improve on xconfig, but to give you the ability to continue configuring your kernel once xconfig was no longer being maintained.