Re: gdb Digest 7 Nov 2003 16:00:26 -0000 Issue 1325

[Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>]

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
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Jim Ingham                                                           
jingham@apple.com
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