From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11243 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2006 19:51:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 11232 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jul 2006 19:51:22 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:51:20 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1G56SU-000441-CB; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:51:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:51:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: cgf-gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Add expat to the GDB sources Message-ID: <20060724195118.GE13612@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , cgf-gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20060718134048.GA15685@nevyn.them.org> <20060723224032.GA5168@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <200607232318.k6NNIV28004376@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060724152438.GA17094@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00344.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:47:54PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:24:38 -0400 > > From: Christopher Faylor > > > > I would really like to see a day when 'src' will no longer include > > 'tcl', or 'readline', or 'expat'. > > But the same could be said about libiberty, libbfd, and libopcodes. > Are you saying we should remove them, too, from the GDB distro? If > not, what is the difference between those and readline? In my opinion, the difference is that no independent releases are made of those projects. In an ideal world, maybe there would be independent releases, and we could use them. But BFD in particular doesn't have a stable API and (as recently discussed on the binutils list) doesn't have an interest in one. Compare to readline, tcl, and expat, each used by hundreds of different programs. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery