From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7875 invoked by alias); 25 Mar 2004 22:08:35 -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 7862 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2004 22:08:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 22:08:33 -0000 Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (a17-128-100-204.apple.com [17.128.100.204]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2PM8WAC022306; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay3.apple.com (relay3.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.6) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:08:32 -0800 Received: from apple.com ([17.219.197.219]) by relay3.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2PM8TMQ010510; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:08:30 GMT Message-ID: <4063585E.9090101@apple.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:52:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney CC: Jason Molenda , binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Retire the MPW support from toplevel and binutils References: <406239C8.6020106@apple.com> <4062FB6D.5060108@gnu.org> <40635448.1000902@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <40635448.1000902@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00269.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney wrote: >> On Mar 25, 2004, at 7:31 AM, Andrew Cagney wrote: >> >>>> I'm sure you already knew this, but you'll need to update the cvs >>>> modules for the repository at the same time you're doing this - >>>> these files are explicitly named in there: >>> >>> >>> >>> Er, the modules file should _not_ be updated. You can always add, >>> but never remove entries. >> >> >> >> In this case, these support files have been obsolete for longer than >> the sourceware repositories have been live. From a completely >> maniacal outlook we'd never want to remove files like this, but >> looking at it realistically, there's nothing being lost here. Yes, >> if someone checks out binutils 2.10 (one of the first releases after >> the repositories moved to sourceware, circa June 2000) by a cvs >> command they'll be missing the mpw support files from the top level. > > > On the other hand this will cause them to mysteriously disappear from > the current live GDB and BINUTILS branches. > > Anyway to sit on this until after there's been a release pulled from > those branches? Well, they're not any different from what was in any of the last releases. In fact, those files haven't been touched (except for a couple mass-edits) since I last worked on them, in 1996. So on the off chance that some software archaeologist wants to get a PhD studying the mysteries of Mac in GNU (hey, it could happen!), there will be plenty of releases where the latest versions may be found. Stan