From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22757 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2019 16:33:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cgen-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cgen-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 22748 invoked by uid 89); 4 Feb 2019 16:33:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=vision, Frank, fcheredhatcom, U*fche X-HELO: mail-wr1-f44.google.com Received: from mail-wr1-f44.google.com (HELO mail-wr1-f44.google.com) (209.85.221.44) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:33:49 +0000 Received: by mail-wr1-f44.google.com with SMTP id q15so463450wro.12 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:33:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=embecosm.com; s=google; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=u1uEXyL1il6+94YJmHRaqpMBisUF0O6TdbOHoUphNKk=; b=eT3jl9wlZX1H70ed5n63ynolvRhUD3BwKIYqax/5yTa6EmE2YDZRnX9AdbMERWa1KI 1225FEwsMufxgpRuGi6Uh4onbeuuDGPE5jWSbq2Q/A1bnYrHZLV9i3ttEGPqs2g+ZjDv mLbA+TDAw2WkC4Jc5b2gYSHP2DN7C9NHzby0aUWDWOkAFTM03OBOfY2O3QvOXoXeEtub AZR01gRjiXHNyUpl8GHwRlugPxdCHRO7ZL8NBKv9MzN4UMpjb+bk3yLO9NcQcDg16zib guF+aBZMnRIs4jsYVYpZGIIVDoz2fA/VuYjmBoqPt2ON6nPAz5CBK7DFN3idTl9EsBIi yhdw== Return-Path: Received: from localhost (cust64-dsl91-135-5.idnet.net. [91.135.5.64]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z18sm8279663wml.36.2019.02.04.08.33.45 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:33:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:33:00 -0000 From: Andrew Burgess To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: cgen@sourceware.org, nickc@redhat.com Subject: Re: Converting CGEN from CVS to git Message-ID: <20190204163344.GA2829@embecosm.com> References: <20190131195017.GB17699@embecosm.com> <878sywvnqx.fsf@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878sywvnqx.fsf@redhat.com> X-Fortune: The best things in life are for a fee. X-Editor: GNU Emacs [ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs ] User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-q1/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 * Frank Ch. Eigler [2019-02-03 11:29:58 -0500]: > > andrew.burgess wrote: > > > I would like to discuss the idea of converting CGEN from CVS to git. > > No objections here, glad to see someone is still interested! Agreed > that old branches are disposable, that a straight main branch cvs-to-git > conversion is sufficient. Any objections to just doing it? > > It could be nice if someone (tm) were to pursue merging cgen into > binutils proper, but that is a separate issue. Yes we _could_ add CGEN to binutils (assuming we could resolve the FSF copyright assignment), but should we? I know right now, binutils/gdb are the only real users, but that doesn't have to always be the case, ideally CGEN could be used for more than just generating parts of binutils/gdb, and in that case having the tools jammed into binutils-gdb would be a little odd. Could we not start in a separate repository, then if we find that there is some problem that would be made easier by having the source in bintuils-gdb we can do that later? Part of my motivation for patching binutils-gdb to not require CGEN in-tree was a vision of a future where CGEN would exist as a true standalone utility that was simply used by binutils (like gcc, flex, etc). Thanks, Andrew