Re: Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot 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...