Re: svn read of the binutils development repository?

[Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:

 >> IBGT on the `check out just binutils' thing: HDDs are somewhat
 >> cheap these days and thus I'd just rule out that argument.

 Paul> It's not just disk space, it's also network bandwidth. The
 Paul> entire src tree is three times the size of just binutils (340Mb
 Paul> vs 113Mb).

 Paul> Also if you have a fully populated src tree toplevel configure
 Paul> will try and build all of it. Getting all of gdb, newlib,
 Paul> cygwin and GOK what else when you just want binutils doesn't
 Paul> sound like a practical solution.

Sure.  But I don't understand the statement that Subversion doesn't
support doing so -- it does.  You can check out any subtree you want.

	paul