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Re: DejaGnu 1.4.4 release

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gp at suse dot de>
Cc: Ben Elliston <bje at wasabisystems dot com>,Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:01:54 -0800
Subject: Re: DejaGnu 1.4.4 release
References: <87smhxiu5d.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <40229AA6.4010005@gnu.org> <87llnhb6sq.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402052145120.23473@lifschitz.suse.de>

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:47:28PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2004, Ben Elliston wrote:
> >> - should src/dejagnu/ be removed?
> > What would the alternative be?  To just expect (ha!) developers to
> > have DejaGnu installed on their systems?

The tester population is larger than the developer population.

> Yes.  If not right away, than in the mid term: we require casual
> testers of CVS GCC to have bison and developers to have autoconf
> etc.; and if upstream DejaGnu "just works", let's use that.
> 
> Most distributions will provide DejaGnu as a package anyway.

We should have a pointer on the web site to the DejaGnu source, for
testers on platforms that don't have it already packaged for them.

References:
- Re: DejaGnu 1.4.4 release
  - From: Andrew Cagney
- Re: DejaGnu 1.4.4 release
  - From: Ben Elliston
- Re: DejaGnu 1.4.4 release
  - From: Gerald Pfeifer

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