From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23801 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2004 16:31:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23777 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2004 16:31:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 16 Nov 2004 16:31:27 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAGGVGBu028781 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:31:27 -0500 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (to-dhcp51.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.151]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iAGGVBr31769; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:31:11 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A664129D8C; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:31:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <419A2B43.6050805@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:31:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041020) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Mark Kettenis , joseph@codesourcery.com, kevinb@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Assume solib.h References: <4193BFA0.3060607@gnu.org> <200411112005.iABK5FrV098628@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <4193DDCE.7060205@gnu.org> <200411112224.iABMODmo099121@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <4194DBEB.6010304@gnu.org> <20041116014027.GB31575@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20041116014027.GB31575@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00338.txt.bz2 > By requiring contributors to make an architectural change to GDB - > which so far I've seen at least three GDB global maintainers take a > stab at and none finish - you are making GDB more difficult to > contribute to. This has the effect of driving away contributions, > which isn't any kind of relationship at all. Sorry, but contrary to your assertion, it is trivial. My and/or Kevin's patch did all that is required - throw the switch and include solib.[ch]. Nothing technically challenging here, and certainly nothing unreasonable for a contributor. Especially when there's a core developer helping with the change. It could by now have even been committed, if only we'd not been dragged down this rat-hole where people start insisting that it has to be tested on old crufty systems that likely don't even build. If you want drive away native GNU and GNU/Linux developers from what is ment to be a GNU project, tell them to fix vax-ultrix. Andrew