From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28935 invoked by alias); 25 Jun 2013 14:53:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 28923 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jun 2013 14:53:37 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:53:36 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5PErW34011952 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:53:33 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-102.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.102]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r5PErV6G008117 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:53:32 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Pedro Alves Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson , Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] don't keep a gdb-specific date References: <1371835865-15879-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> <871u7rwodv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20130624224138.GC5326@adacore.com> <87y59ythcd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <51C9AC97.9000506@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:01:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <51C9AC97.9000506@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:43:35 +0100") Message-ID: <87li5ytf6h.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00705.txt.bz2 Pedro> IMO, it'd make sense to push a very light/simple "VERSION" file Pedro> that only has the date and nothing else, like Pedro> $ cat src/VERSION Pedro> 20130625 Pedro> $ Pedro> to the top level. Then any project in the tree could source that Pedro> single file any way it saw fit. sim would still need the gdb copy to get the same version numbers it has now. The BFD dependency isn't a problem as sim already depends on BFD. The problem is the gdb-specific stuff like "7.6" Tom