Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS

Joseph S. Myers
2010-12-21T18:39:22Z

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> >I looked through CVSROOT/modules a little. I think it would be good if
> >we could split some of the modules off into their own repositories.
> >However, I don't know what in there is active or even what projects
> >would not mind being split off.
>
> As I've said before, I'd welcome splitting Cygwin into its own
> repository and I would be interested in helping on the sourceware side.

And I think that gdb+binutils (that is, the files and directories you get
by checking out that module) should be split into its own repository -
keep those two together, leave other projects to transition or not in
their own time and their own way. (The toplevel configure already
supports --disable-<directory> generically, so with a combined source tree
you can already use --disable-gdb --disable-sim --disable-readline to
build binutils only, or --disable-binutils --disable-gas --disable-gprof
--disable-ld --disable-gold to build GDB only - though simpler aliases
might be useful.)

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Joseph S. Myers
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