From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: CML2 with python1 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 05:17:34 -0500 On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:29:54AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>: > > ESR, is it practical to have CML2 transcribe a CML1 config file? > > No, alas. But it _is_ entirely practical to run CML2 with a bog-standard python 1.5 interpreter. I just did a search/replace for the python2-ism's like <x> += <y> => <x> = <x> + <y>, and <string>.<op>(<arg>) => string.<op>(<string>, <arg>) Worked around some missing functionality in the older shlex and curses modules and I can now use oldconfig, menuconfig, xconfig, and cmladvent with CML2 and a python1 interpreter. It also still works fine with python2 as well. http://ravel.coda.cs.cmu.edu/cml2-1.9.4-python1.patch (36K) 36K might sound like a lot, but given the fact that the CML python sources totals about 280KB, it is a pretty small diff, and the whole "but python2 isn't standard in distributions and the license is bad" argument can be dropped and we can get on with life. Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/