On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 21:09, Bas Wijnen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know, this is just a rant, but I just wanted to share what I'm >> thinking from my external point of view. > > No problem. :-) Would you have an idea for how to improve things? You > suggest that we should just take a random kernel which looks roughly ok > and go with that. (I'm exaggerating it, but that is your idea, right?)
Yes, in the end it looks like something like that. > As I explained, we don't want to do that. But perhaps you have some > other ideas? I understand that now that we have Mach, we want to build something once, so the (micro-)kernel has to be the good one from the start. This seems to be a good plan to me. Since we were able to try things with the previous kernels (and I'm sure people did things themselves), ideas can be categorized into good/bad, easy/hard/impossible, and finally wanted/not wanted. Once this is done, things can be built one step after another; architecture of the different parts, design, and so on. That's how I'd do things. Yes, I know, this is just like software engineering, but usually it works in the end. Sadly I don't have time to do this kind of things (right now, maybe someday). Regards, -- Damien Thebault
