"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > It's interesting that the ANSI emulation in loader(8) is good enough to do > > full-screen displays. It still seems to make sense to move userconfig-like > > functionality into the pre-kernel stages including moving config(8)'s hints > > to a loaded and parsed file. Forth, bah.. :-] > > I recall saying once I'd do it once people decided they wanted it. > The disadvantage of anything written in Forth is that not many > people can then maintain the code. But, then again, there is some > code around written in C that no one *wants* to maintain (a certain > installation program comes to mind... :)
Well, if you look at userconfig.c, you'll notice that very few people understand/maintain that code either. The most common changes are adding or removing device descriptions in a table, and that should be pretty much the same no matter what language it's written in... Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
