From: Wolfram Sang on
> Don't know how complex the coccinelle software itself is, but I think it
> would make sense to ship it with the kernel-sources too. That together

You can easily find out by browsing the homepage of coccinelle.

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From: Julia Lawall on
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Wolfram Sang wrote:

> > Don't know how complex the coccinelle software itself is, but I think it
> > would make sense to ship it with the kernel-sources too. That together
>
> You can easily find out by browsing the homepage of coccinelle.

Over 100 000 lines of code.

julia
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From: walter harms on


Julia Lawall schrieb:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>
>>> Don't know how complex the coccinelle software itself is, but I think it
>>> would make sense to ship it with the kernel-sources too. That together
>> You can easily find out by browsing the homepage of coccinelle.
>
> Over 100 000 lines of code.
>
> julia
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coccinelle is a great programm and should have its own repository.
I don not thing thats a clever idea to integrate it directly into
the kernel source tree. IMHO it would hinder the development of coccinelle
in the long term.

re,
wh




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From: Joerg Roedel on
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:31:34AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>
> > > Don't know how complex the coccinelle software itself is, but I think it
> > > would make sense to ship it with the kernel-sources too. That together
> >
> > You can easily find out by browsing the homepage of coccinelle.
>
> Over 100 000 lines of code.

I just noticed that distributions already ship it in their repositories.
So this its okay to keep it outside the kernel sources.

Joerg

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