From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8696 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2004 00:15:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8461 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2004 00:14:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailhub.air.net.au) (203.52.201.202) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 10 Jun 2004 00:14:56 -0000 Received: from mailhub.air.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub.air.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8B236DD3 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:14:50 +1000 (EST) Received: by mailhub.air.net.au (tmda-sendmail, from uid 500); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:14:49 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:15:00 -0000 To: DJ Delorie Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: top-level removal of dejagnu, expect Message-ID: <20040610101446.B3128@mailhub.air.net.au> References: <20040610092223.A1221@mailhub.air.net.au> <200406092340.i59Ne3FT028298@greed.delorie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200406092340.i59Ne3FT028298@greed.delorie.com>; from dj@redhat.com on Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:40:03PM -0400 From: Ben Elliston X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.86 (Venetian Way) X-Primary-Address: bje@air.net.au X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00204.txt.bz2 --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 2296 > 1. Have you asked EVERY project that uses the src repository? > binutils and gdb aren't the only projects. Why not just remove > those directories from the modules file instead? cgf has already > mentioned that src/expect has cygwin-specific code in it. I have asked the major players and got overwhelming support. Removing the directories from the modules file is broken, as you know. It should be possible to check those files out if they were included in a past tag (which they were). As for Expect, the version in src/expect has not been updated since sourceware was instated last century :-) There are much newer versions which carry fixes for some of the problems that are being reported. I am pushing all patches made since the import to Don Libes and do not intend to drop any. I found a couple of patches related to Cygwin. Many of them were removed by Chris Faylor in 2001, however. > 2. Our internal repository has a customized dejagnu; it would be > convenient for us if support for an in-tree dejagnu were > maintained. Likewise for other developers who may want to (or need > to) customize dejagnu for new ports in conjunction with porting the > tools. I stated at the GCC Summit that, as a DejaGnu maintainer, I will be responsive to urgent bug fixes. I appreciate that. Those fixes can be made available via the Savannah CVS server, or I can push out maintenance releases as required. No one felt this was a problem. Someone said they would be happy to check out the Savannah dejagnu directory into their uberbaum for "emulation" of the current setup. > So, I would prefer that support for an in-tree dejagnu were > retained. Even if dejagnu and expect were totally wiped from the > src repository, the toplevel changes would not be needed to support An in-tree dejagnu is a pain to maintain. The last six months have demonstrated this. I merged the two dejagnu trees at the end of January and since then, have struggled to keep them in sync. > that change, so claiming that change is "in preparation for" the > removal is misleading. I suggest doing it later, after the dust > settles, if at all. No, it is in preparation. If I didn't make these changes in preparation, I guarantee that the next night's GDB snapshot would fail. Ben --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 189 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAx6f2bNtDbHIEhSURAnldAKDlSqvGPrTnv4O8tvKBsqqbX2ewlQCgixwI ErH0xKKDg426q5l4Fnw5YO4= =X1Au -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq--