Re: [patch] remove Tix

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:50:09PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>>>On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:14:40AM -0800, Martin M. Hunt wrote:
>>>
> 
>>>>2002-11-27  Martin M. Hunt  <hunt@redhat.com>
>>>>
>>>>	* generic/gdbtk.c (gdbtk_init): Don't call Tix_Init.
>>>>	Don't include tix.h
>>>>
>>>>	* generic/gdbtk-hooks.c: Don't include tix.h.
>>>>
>>>>	* generic/gdbtkj-cmds.c: Don't include tix.h.
> 
>>>
>>>
>>>Does this mean that we can remove tix from the insight module
>>>on sources dot redhat dot com?
> 
>>
>>Not really.
>>
>>If tix was removed, someone checking out:
>>	-D last-year insight
>>would find that the no longer got tix (which was needed back then).
> 
> 
> So, we create a module "last-year-insight" or "insight-tix".  I don't
> see any reason to bend over backwards accommodating unusual things like
> the above.

GDB will end up in a similar situtation, I was thinking of creating 
modules like gdb-5-2, gdb-5-3, ...