From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4456 invoked by alias); 17 May 2006 14:31:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 4446 invoked by uid 22791); 17 May 2006 14:31:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 17 May 2006 14:31:18 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4HERqHW011636; Wed, 17 May 2006 10:27:52 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4HERlWg012912; Wed, 17 May 2006 10:27:47 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (sebastian-int.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.221]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4HERk66021831; Wed, 17 May 2006 10:27:47 -0400 Message-ID: <446B32E2.3080107@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:31:00 -0000 From: Keith Seitz User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikhail Teterin CC: insight@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight References: <200605162201.33772.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <200605162201.33772.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 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...