Re: gdb Digest 7 Nov 2003 16:00:26 -0000 Issue 1325

[Mark Newman <markn_46 at yahoo dot com>]

JIm -
 
could you point us to your cvs?
 
In addition can you provide a pointer or whatever to
something that indicates that that code is not Apple
IP and does not contain any Apple or anyone else's IP?
 
                                                      
            Mark


--- Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Jim
>
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