From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19420 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2003 19:16:28 -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 19400 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2003 19:16:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2003 19:16:27 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA7JGRrY029647 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:16:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:15:53 -0800 Received: from [17.219.199.53] ([17.219.199.53]) by scv2.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA7JG8EV016148; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:16:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20031107180331.20521.qmail@web13801.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031107180331.20521.qmail@web13801.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com From: Jim Ingham Subject: Re: gdb Digest 7 Nov 2003 16:00:26 -0000 Issue 1325 Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 19:16:00 -0000 To: Mark Newman X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 On Nov 7, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Mark Newman wrote: > JIm - > > could you point us to your cvs? http://developer.apple.com/darwin/tools/cvs/howto.html But as I told Elena, we got behind in merging what with all we had to do for Panther, so I would hold off looking at this for another couple of weeks. It will probably be clearer when Klee is done. > > 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? > Our blanket copyright assignment is on file with the FSF, and we release all our gdb changes publicly with the FSF copyright statements in place. I think this is sufficient. Jim > > 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 >> > > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com Developer Tools - gdb