From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31829 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2003 18:04:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31822 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2003 18:04:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2003 18:04:50 -0000 Received: by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 469) id 351161A42DB; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: Elena Zannoni MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16299.57026.131736.290504@localhost.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:04:00 -0000 To: Jim Ingham Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb Digest 7 Nov 2003 16:00:26 -0000 Issue 1325 In-Reply-To: <3432BCBC-1148-11D8-8D8B-000A277A8808@apple.com> References: <1068220826.2391.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <3432BCBC-1148-11D8-8D8B-000A277A8808@apple.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00070.txt.bz2 Jim Ingham writes: > Elena, > > On Nov 7, 2003, at 8:00 AM, gdb-digest-help@sources.redhat.com wrote: > > > the objc support is in gdb mainline and it has been there for a while. > > There are some bugs still, but it was merged. > > Are you referring to something else? > > Yes, I was referring to the very beginnings of Adam's work. Since the > tarball of the Apple sources were sitting on the FSF site, he naturally > started from there. But since they had been sitting for a while, the > first task he faced was reconciling the changes in the relevant areas > of the tarball with the changes in the FSF sources between the time the > tarball was dropped and when he got it. At that time, we were keeping > pretty current with the FSF distro, so we had done this job already - > and the results were readily available in our CVS repository. IIRC, we > figured out what was going on pretty quickly and set him straight, but > that is the sort of pointless duplication of effort that it would be > good to avoid. > I see. Are you still taking the fsf changes on a regular basis? I believe that having a source drop represents also kind of a formal handoff, a sign that Apple was willingly giving some code back to the community, and at least go through the motions, but maybe that's just me. > > > > Same story for the interpreter stuff which Keith, Andrew and I merged. > > > > I am pretty sure Keith worked from our CVS repository, at least that is > what I urged him to do. By the time you & Andrew got to it, I think > the work was pretty far along, so you probably didn't have any need to > refer to our version. Yes we worked from the Apple CVS repo. I remember it was quite cumbersome to get to it though, and I forgot the URL. > > > I think we went through this before, with the previoius tarball. If > > it's too hard a requirement, then let's forget about it. We'll live > > with the status quo. > > It is obviously not hard but I worry it is likely to be > counter-productive. That was what we "went through before" and the > event somewhat justified my concerns. > > Pointing folks at our CVS repository is much easier, and we even have > anonymous access now for those who don't want to give out their e-mail > addresses... Plus then they have all the benefits of CVS in trying to > figure out why we did all the screwy things we did... > ... the pointer is? elena > Jim > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- > Jim Ingham > jingham@apple.com > Developer Tools - gdb