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

Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-08-21T22:36:04Z

On Tuesday, August 21 2012, Pierre Muller wrote:

> 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.

Sorry, I don't remember much of thread right now, but I glanced over the
archives and it seems that things were discussed quite a bit and your
patches were mostly OK.

> My plan was to:
> 1) create a contrib/ARI subdirectory
> in which I would copy the existing scripts.

src/gdb/contrib/ari, as Doung pointed out.

> 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).

Great.

> 3) Add a minimal number of new scripts to allow easy use
> from within this new location.

Great.

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

ISTR that the maintainers are not found of creating new ChangeLog files
on every new directory, so you should put the entries in gdb/ChangeLog
as usual, IIUC.

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

> Pierre Muller
> as potential ARI maintainer...

Is there anything else? I really don't remember. If not, I guess you,
as the potential ARI maintainer, can take the next step and commit this
to the tree. But that's my opinion, of course.

Thanks,

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Sergio