Re: [toplevel patch] delete references to tix

[David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>]

On 10 Mar 2003 21:20:37 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> said:

> Anyway, I don't see the point of removing support for building
> packages from the tree.  I can still legitimately want to build Tix
> along with Tcl, Tk and Itcl.  IMHO, the fact that the tools in src no
> longer use Tix doesn't imply, to me, that the infrastructure to build
> Tix should no longer be there.  It costs very little (or nothing) to
> keep it working.  Removing it just because we can doesn't sound like
> such a good idea to me.  Maybe I'm being overly conservative?  If more
> people think so, please let me know, I'm always open to change.

I've forgotten (or not entirely understood) what you're advocating,
but if you're talking about keeping around directories as opposed to
just config stuff, then it imposes a cost when they get downloaded
unnecessarily, when they get compiled unnecessarily.  So I don't want
checking out insight+dejagnu to download random packages just because
they once were necessary.  (Of course, the tix directory is now
deleted, so that's not applicable here.)

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu