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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 23:01:00 -0000
From: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.de>
Cc: Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com>,
	Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
	gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: DejaGnu 1.4.4 release
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402052145120.23473@lifschitz.suse.de>; from gp@suse.de on Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:47:28PM +0100
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On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:47:28PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2004, Ben Elliston wrote:
> >> - should src/dejagnu/ be removed?
> > What would the alternative be?  To just expect (ha!) developers to
> > have DejaGnu installed on their systems?

The tester population is larger than the developer population.

> Yes.  If not right away, than in the mid term: we require casual
> testers of CVS GCC to have bison and developers to have autoconf
> etc.; and if upstream DejaGnu "just works", let's use that.
> 
> Most distributions will provide DejaGnu as a package anyway.

We should have a pointer on the web site to the DejaGnu source, for
testers on platforms that don't have it already packaged for them.