removing src/dejagnu, src/expect

Christopher Faylor me@cgf.cx
Wed Jun 9 01:28:00 GMT 2004


On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 08:23:40PM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
>At yesterday's GCC Summit testing BOF, there was a strong concensus
>that these directories should be removed from the src tree and that
>developers should install the latest releases of Expect and Dejagnu
>from their distribution/packaging system or from a source tarball at
>ftp.gnu.org.
>
>I'm declaring that I intend to do this and no sooner than Friday June
>11 at 00:00 UTC.  I will be ensuring that no local patches, if any,
>are lost in this process.  If you have any reasonable objection,
>please say so now .. :-)

When you say that you are going to "remove" these I hope you just mean
"cvs remove", right?

Rhetorical question: Are you taking cygwin into account in this
decision?  If you've looked at the expect directory you would have seen
a few cygwin patches.

cgf



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