Re: Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight

[Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>]

Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> ?????? 17 ??????? 2006 13:55, Keith Seitz ???????:
>> I don't have a problem with making insight-only snapshots available. Of
>> course, IMO, anonymous CVS is always available to do this.
> 
> I don't realy care for snapshots as I don't intend my port for people working 
> ON insight/gdb -- only for those working WITH it.

You can always use a CVS release branch. All releases are tagged 
(gdb_MAJOR_MINOR-branch -- gdb_6_5-branch was just created).

> But I'd like the released pieces to be available by themselves -- without the 
> accompanying other stuff, that's already ported and available.
> 
> I made my own tarball with gdb/gdbtk and libgui -- it is under a megabyte 
> bzip2-ed.
> 
> If you feel, the users should be able to download everything needed from one 
> location, you can add your server to the list of Tcl/Tk and Itcl/Itk 
> mirrors :-)

Believe me when I say, I have wanted to remove the requirement of using 
pre-packaged tcl, tk, and itcl for a LONG time. You know, I may just 
stop talking about it and do it. How hard can the first two be, anyway? 
(Famous last words)

Then I could make an insight RPM. :-)

Keith