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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Johan Rydberg <jrydberg@gnu.org>
Cc: sid@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: x86 full system simulation.
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061031145557.GT4978@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lkmwy2u9.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi -

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:54PM +0100, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> [...]
> "several years ago" is "nowdays" when it comes to the development pace
> of SID :) 

Indeed, sid is stable, though Red Hat still undertakes some commercial
porting support for it.

> [...]  Unrelated: Has anyone toyed with the idea of maybe throwing
> away mainDynamic+configrun and replacing it with a Python frontend?
> [...]

... or lua or something?  It's all possible, and not hard to do.
(OTOH, disposing of prior front-ends is not necessary unless they are
well and truly supplanted.)

> I know that SID is somewhat hooked up to tcl, but I won't touch that
> with a three hundred meter pole.

Well, it wouldn't give you warts, if that's what you worry about. :-)

- FChE

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-31 13:30 Johan Rydberg
2006-10-31 13:43 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-10-31 14:30   ` Johan Rydberg
2006-10-31 14:56     ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]

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