From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc: insight@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <446B32E2.3080107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605162201.33772.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> What is the rationale behind bundling the entire gdb (which, in turn, bundled
> libiberty, bfd), the itcl and itk, etc. into one giant tarball?
Because at one time, we maintained a large number of fixes to tcl, tk,
and itcl. Gdb is included because insight is very tightly coupled to a
particular version of gdb. [Although not so much as of late since no one
is actively developing insight.]
> Why can't these independent trees remain independent? You can even offer them
> all on your download site(s), but someone, who already has itk installed and
> gdb downloaded need not download the entire 20Mb of insight-6.4.tar.bz2. All
> she needs is a 800Kb of gdbtk and libgui tarred together...
I did once ask list members if people wanted the snapshots to be a giant
tarball of everything or just the insight bits. The majority wanted the
giant tarball:
http://sourceware.org/ml/insight/2004-q4/msg00116.html
Keith
PS. Patches welcome to build using external tcl, tk, itcl...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-17 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-17 2:02 Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 14:31 ` Keith Seitz [this message]
2006-05-17 17:50 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 17:57 ` Dave Korn
[not found] ` <200605171330.50762.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
2006-05-17 17:53 ` Does insight work? Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:06 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 18:08 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:15 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 18:27 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:41 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 19:03 ` Single-executable patch Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 19:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-17 19:28 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 19:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-17 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <200605171337.30938.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
2006-05-17 17:55 ` Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:11 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 18:20 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:31 ` Mikhail Teterin
2007-06-29 0:56 ` Mikhail Teterin
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