Re: [RFC] Add expat to the GDB sources

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-24T19:51:23Z

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 <me@cgf.cx>
> >
> > 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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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