From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31088 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2003 18:03:39 -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 31074 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2003 18:03:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web13801.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.175.11) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2003 18:03:38 -0000 Message-ID: <20031107180331.20521.qmail@web13801.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.59.142.117] by web13801.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 10:03:31 PST Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:03:00 -0000 From: Mark Newman Subject: Re: gdb Digest 7 Nov 2003 16:00:26 -0000 Issue 1325 To: Jim Ingham , gdb@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <3432BCBC-1148-11D8-8D8B-000A277A8808@apple.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00069.txt.bz2 JIm - could you point us to your cvs? In addition can you provide a pointer or whatever to something that indicates that that code is not Apple IP and does not contain any Apple or anyone else's IP? Mark --- Jim Ingham wrote: > 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. > > > > > 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. > > > 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... > > Jim > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- > Jim Ingham > > jingham@apple.com > Developer Tools - gdb >