From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6084 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2006 13:47:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 6075 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Apr 2006 13:47:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sadr.equallogic.com (HELO sadr.equallogic.com) (66.155.203.134) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:47:24 +0000 Received: from sadr.equallogic.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sadr.equallogic.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3CDlLkq022234 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:47:21 -0400 Received: from M31.equallogic.com (M31.equallogic.com [172.16.1.31]) by sadr.equallogic.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id k3CDlK3L022229; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:47:20 -0400 Received: from pkoning.equallogic.com ([172.16.1.169]) by M31.equallogic.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:47:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17469.1254.661785.22130@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:55:00 -0000 From: Paul Koning To: paul@codesourcery.com Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, jbglaw@lug-owl.de Subject: Re: svn read of the binutils development repository? References: <5460e3330604090024k2bc1eaecjf5b95a4ba24018a@mail.gmail.com> <20060412043730.GB13022@nevyn.them.org> <20060412060641.GY13324@lug-owl.de> <200604121409.05845.paul@codesourcery.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta23) "daikon" XEmacs Lucid X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-04/txt/msg00173.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Brook writes: >> IBGT on the `check out just binutils' thing: HDDs are somewhat >> cheap these days and thus I'd just rule out that argument. Paul> It's not just disk space, it's also network bandwidth. The Paul> entire src tree is three times the size of just binutils (340Mb Paul> vs 113Mb). Paul> Also if you have a fully populated src tree toplevel configure Paul> will try and build all of it. Getting all of gdb, newlib, Paul> cygwin and GOK what else when you just want binutils doesn't Paul> sound like a practical solution. Sure. But I don't understand the statement that Subversion doesn't support doing so -- it does. You can check out any subtree you want. paul