From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23510 invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2004 21:32:22 -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 23480 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2004 21:32:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.5) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 15 Jun 2004 21:32:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 21581 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2004 21:32:21 -0000 Received: from taltos.codesourcery.com (zack@66.92.218.83) by mail.codesourcery.com with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 15 Jun 2004 21:32:21 -0000 Received: by taltos.codesourcery.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:32:20 -0700 To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Ben Elliston , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: removing src/expect References: <20040615141501.A19302@mailhub.air.net.au> From: Zack Weinberg Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:32:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Alexandre Oliva's message of "15 Jun 2004 17:35:04 -0300") Message-ID: <87zn74zevv.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00157.txt.bz2 Alexandre Oliva writes: > On Jun 15, 2004, Ben Elliston wrote: > >> I propose that src/expect be removed from the tree 7 days from now > >> Any objections? > > Err... Yes, for the same reasons as dejagnu. It's not bundled with > most of the OSs I used to test, and being able to build expect along > with tcl/tk/etc that were built for GDB/Insight, and dejagnu, that > requires it, was quite handy. Sure it's old, but it doesn't hurt as > long as it works, no? And it's not like you're required to check it > out. I'd rather just leave it there, like dejagnu. And on the other side, I have repeatedly been burnt by systems with tcl/expect headers installed globally which are incompatible with the stuff in /cvs/src. I'd be much happier if tcl/tk/expect were all three removed from src. zw