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Re: gdb Digest 7 Nov 2003 16:00:26 -0000 Issue 1325
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- To: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:04:50 -0500
- Subject: Re: gdb Digest 7 Nov 2003 16:00:26 -0000 Issue 1325
- References: <1068220826.2391.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com><3432BCBC-1148-11D8-8D8B-000A277A8808@apple.com>
Jim Ingham writes:
> Elena,
>
> On Nov 7, 2003, at 8:00 AM, gdb-digest-help@sources.redhat.com wrote:
>
> > the objc support is in gdb mainline and it has been there for a while.
> > There are some bugs still, but it was merged.
> > Are you referring to something else?
>
> Yes, I was referring to the very beginnings of Adam's work. Since the
> tarball of the Apple sources were sitting on the FSF site, he naturally
> started from there. But since they had been sitting for a while, the
> first task he faced was reconciling the changes in the relevant areas
> of the tarball with the changes in the FSF sources between the time the
> tarball was dropped and when he got it. At that time, we were keeping
> pretty current with the FSF distro, so we had done this job already -
> and the results were readily available in our CVS repository. IIRC, we
> figured out what was going on pretty quickly and set him straight, but
> that is the sort of pointless duplication of effort that it would be
> good to avoid.
>
I see. Are you still taking the fsf changes on a regular basis? I
believe that having a source drop represents also kind of a formal
handoff, a sign that Apple was willingly giving some code back to the
community, and at least go through the motions, but maybe that's just
me.
> >
> > Same story for the interpreter stuff which Keith, Andrew and I merged.
> >
>
> I am pretty sure Keith worked from our CVS repository, at least that is
> what I urged him to do. By the time you & Andrew got to it, I think
> the work was pretty far along, so you probably didn't have any need to
> refer to our version.
Yes we worked from the Apple CVS repo. I remember it was quite
cumbersome to get to it though, and I forgot the URL.
>
> > I think we went through this before, with the previoius tarball. If
> > it's too hard a requirement, then let's forget about it. We'll live
> > with the status quo.
>
> It is obviously not hard but I worry it is likely to be
> counter-productive. That was what we "went through before" and the
> event somewhat justified my concerns.
>
> Pointing folks at our CVS repository is much easier, and we even have
> anonymous access now for those who don't want to give out their e-mail
> addresses... Plus then they have all the benefits of CVS in trying to
> figure out why we did all the screwy things we did...
>
... the pointer is?
elena
> Jim
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