Re: About RFA for Add scripts to generate ARI web pages to gdb/contrib/ari directory

Doug Evans
2012-08-21T22:25:15Z

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Pierre Muller
<pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> wrote:
>
> I made several proposals to include the ARI script in the main source of
> gdb, but I had the strong impression to get comments/suggestions for changes
> that went in opposite directions in several replies I got in the
> four versions I sent.
>
> Thus, I left for a nice holidays without having been able to
> commit anything.
>
> In order to avoid further digressions and as the thread is now already
> quite old,
> I was wondering if we should not first discuss of a general scheme
> as to how we should proceed here.
>
> My plan was to:
> 1) create a contrib/ARI subdirectory
> in which I would copy the existing scripts.

contrib/ari?

> 2) Remove useless code in new location and fix
> biggest errors in existing scripts only, leaving
> other improvements for later (so that they would appear
> in cvs history).
>
> 3) Add a minimal number of new scripts to allow easy use
> from within this new location.

Sounds great.

>
> One of the issues was about where we should put the corresponding ChangeLog
> entries.

gdb/ChangeLog is fine, I think.

> I would like to restart the discussion
> from here.