RE: Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 17 May 2006 18:50, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> середа 17 травень 2006 10:27, Keith Seitz написав:

>> The majority wanted the giant tarball:
>> 
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/insight/2004-q4/msg00116.html
> 
> This link points to you asking the question and a SINGLE response from a
> person, who admitted to be a ``not a big "consumer of snapshots"''.

  Heh, but one out of one is still a majority.  :-D

  Anyway, are we talking about snapshots or releases here?

> I'll build it -- just allow me (and the users of my work) to download only
> the pieces needed. I'd like to make a FreeBSD port of insight (and gdb*).
> 
> Our ports collection already builds tcl/tk, itcl/itk, iwidgets, gnulibiberty
> and other commonly used software -- there is no need for the insight port to
> have a private copy of all this.

  In the short term, you could always just check-out the individual subtrees
that you require from the sourceware CVS.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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