From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: tower@gnu.ai.mit.edu
To: meissner@osf.org
Cc: raeburn@cygnus.com, bfd@cygnus.com, gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: merging gas into binutils?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 14:44:00 -0000
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   From: Michael Meissner <meissner@osf.org>
   Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 10:36:06 -0400

   | 
   | A suggestion has been made to merge gas into the binutils package,
   | meaning there'd be only one distribution.  It's an idea that's
   | occurred to me before.  And of course it's what I'm already doing for
   | the nightly snapshots, though they're going under the name `gas' at
   | the moment rather than `binutils'.
   | 
   | That would make it about 2/3 the size of the current two packages,
   | with bfd &c duplicated.  On the other hand, it means someone wanting
   | to pick up gas alone would have to download a bit more.
   | 
   | The linker has got SunOS shared library support added (linking against
   | them, not creating them), and other nifty new features.  So that at
   | least is no longer an argument for using gas but not the rest of
   | binutils (specifically the linker).  Offhand I don't know of a
   | situation where you'd want binutils but not gas, though there may be
   | one or two targets supported by binutils but not gas.  And of course
   | people would still have the option of only installing some of the
   | programs distributed as `binutils'.
   | 
   | Does anyone see a good reason why I shouldn't just combine them, and
   | release `binutils 2.5, including assembler and linker' sometime?

   I would say that ok, provided either the old gas tar files get removed
   from prep, or a symlink is created from binutils-2.5.tar.gz to
   gas-2.5.tar.gz is made.

We'll remove the old files when they are no longer useful to people or
we need the space.  And add a gas.README that explains the merge.

best -len