From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6001 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2004 19:12:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5986 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2004 19:12:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Apr 2004 19:12:29 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i32JFic3021882; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:15:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay2.apple.com (relay2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.6) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:12:28 -0800 Received: from apple.com ([17.219.196.116]) by relay2.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i32JCPIq026866; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:12:26 GMT Message-ID: <406DBB19.4090807@apple.com> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 19:12:00 -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> <4063585E.9090101@apple.com> <40635C52.5020102@gnu.org> <40635F0C.1050200@apple.com> <406D85BF.3020500@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <406D85BF.3020500@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00047.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney wrote: >> >>>> Stan, what's the urgency? Why not wait until GDB 6.1 and BINUTILS >>>> 1.? are released as that is obviously going to make everyones life >>>> easier. What's that, a few extra weeks? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I have a bit of time available now, no guarantees about the future. >>> Seeing as how the support has long been gone from GDB proper, I'm >>> totally mystified as to why these files even matter to anybody one way >>> or the other, let alone how keeping them makes "everyones life >>> easier"?. Am I missing a scripting/packaging dependency or >>> something? >> >> >> >> Who knows whats going on with scripting/packaging. > > > Stan, > > I see you've committed these changes. GDB 6.1 branch, and I suspect > the BINUTILS branches will no longer snapshot: > >> 4 >> ? >> Fri Apr 2 02:24:10 UTC 2004: Fix the version in any isolated files ... >> Fri Apr 2 02:24:10 UTC 2004: Blatting files ... >> Fri Apr 2 02:24:10 UTC 2004: Making snapshot using src-release ... >> make: *** No rule to make target `mpw-README', needed by >> `gdb+dejagnu.tar'. Stop. > Sorry, that's why I was hoping for specifics last week on exactly what problems you anticipated; it's the work of a moment to update src-release on the branches, but a "who knows" answer doesn't give me much guidance. Stan Stan