From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28811 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2005 17:26:52 -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 28782 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2005 17:26:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (205.217.158.180) by sourceware.org with QMTP; 18 Jul 2005 17:26:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 28465 invoked by uid 10); 18 Jul 2005 17:26:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 1855 invoked by uid 500); 18 Jul 2005 17:26:38 -0000 To: Christopher Faylor Cc: mark@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, chet.ramey@case.edu Subject: Re: Guidance re. MinGW and readline References: <42DAF4FE.3060609@codesourcery.com> <200507180621.j6I6L9WO005075@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050718135801.GA17333@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050718171028.GA7804@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:26:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20050718171028.GA7804@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor writes: > >> Actually, I wonder if libiberty would be a better place for the minimal > >> termcap stuff. > > > >I don't see why, unless we seriously think that some program other > >than gdb is going to want to use it. If I understand the earlier > >messages, the only point to the minimal termcap stuff is to use it > >with readline on MinGW. That seems fairly special purpose to me, and > >not the sort of thing we usually put it into libiberty. > > It just seemed to me that there was at least a chance that some other > GNU project might eventually want to use readline with mingw. To me that is an argument for putting it into readline itself. Reductively, anybody who uses readline does use readline, but does not necessarily use libiberty. But I don't feel all that strongly about this. I'm just doubtful that anybody other than gdb will ever use it out of libiberty. Ian