kconfig_compiler as XSLT?

[Frans Englich]

(late followup)

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 23:26, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Hi all,
> Has there ever been the idea to implement the current spaghetti code of
> kconfig_compiler as an XSLT transformation? Are there any reasons against
> it?

That idea struck me a long time ago as well.

I'm not fully sure what Cornelius has in mind in particular when saying it's 
unsuited for generating C++. Back when KDOM weren't superceeded by Webkit, 
its generator for the C++ and Javascript bindings were written in XSL-T, in a 
couple of hours.

I'd say it largely depends on what your source is and what steps you need to 
do before outputting.

Aaron's suggestion of not potentially breaking what isn't broken is good, but 
on the other hand KDE 4 development is a nice opportunity to simplify 
implementations. Perhaps it all depends on how an XSL-T implementation of 
kconfig_compiler would look.


Cheers,

		Frans