Re: [RFC] Add expat to the GDB sources

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:51:18PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>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.

Yes.

Also, the master repository for libiberty, et al, is *on sourceware* not
on some random other server and all of the people who make changes to
the libraries participate in forums which are clustered around
sourceware and are known to each other.  This is not the case for tcl or
expat, and only somewhat the case for readline.

cgf