From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32526 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2004 16:27:49 -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 32456 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2004 16:27:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vaxjo.synopsys.com) (198.182.60.75) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 16 Jun 2004 16:27:44 -0000 Received: from mother.synopsys.com (mother.synopsys.com [146.225.100.171]) by vaxjo.synopsys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BAFDB8D; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piper.synopsys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mother.synopsys.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA07089; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by piper.synopsys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i5GGRfr14912; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:27:41 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: piper.synopsys.com: jbuck set sender to Joe.Buck@synopsys.com using -f Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:27:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Zack Weinberg , Ben Elliston , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: removing src/expect Message-ID: <20040616092741.A13335@synopsys.com> References: <20040615141501.A19302@mailhub.air.net.au> <87zn74zevv.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> <20040615154957.A5587@synopsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from aoliva@redhat.com on Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:33:58AM -0300 X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00179.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:33:58AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2004, Joe Buck wrote: > > > I understand your issue; you want to quickly get going to test some > > obsure platforms. I think that the way to go about it is to have a > > doc pointing to the exact correct versions of Tcl, Expect, and DejaGNU > > to use. > > And why is this better than having the exact correct versions in CVS, > such that people can optionally check it out and use them without a > separate install step? Up to now, we haven't had the correct version, we've had old versions.