From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28651 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2006 22:40:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 28604 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jul 2006 22:40:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-29.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:40:34 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 54A3313C2DE; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:40:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:40:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Add expat to the GDB sources Message-ID: <20060723224032.GA5168@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20060718134048.GA15685@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060718134048.GA15685@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00322.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 09:40:48AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >At the beginning of the year, I proposed adding an XML parsing library to >GDB. ...and, FWIW, there's already an expat directory at the top-level of src which exists entirely as a branch (which you announced). Just as a meta-issue, I have to wonder at the precedent of one of the projects which shares 'src' adding directories to the top-level. I just built gdb on linux and I see that it pulls in ncurses but there is no ncurses directory in src. Why can't we just say that "building gdb requires a native expat library >= some version" like we do with ncurses? Any other project which uses expat would just add detection of the expat library to the configure phase. I've really always hated the habit of duplicating (and essentially forking) other project's source code in 'src' and putting expat there just seems like a step backwards to me. cgf