From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9020 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2003 00:38:49 -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 9008 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2003 00:38:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jackfruit.Stanford.EDU) (171.64.38.136) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 11 Mar 2003 00:38:48 -0000 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by jackfruit.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h2B0cfB15924; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:38:41 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: jackfruit.Stanford.EDU: carlton set sender to carlton@math.stanford.edu using -f To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Andrew Cagney , "Martin M. Hunt" , Nathanael Nerode , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, "insight@sources.redhat.com" , dj@redhat.com Subject: Re: [toplevel patch] delete references to tix References: <20030310182220.GA461@doctormoo> <1047323650.1149.1.camel@Dragon> <1047327075.1136.18.camel@Dragon> <3E6D097F.2010001@redhat.com> From: David Carlton Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:38:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00246.txt.bz2 On 10 Mar 2003 21:20:37 -0300, Alexandre Oliva 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