Procedure for large drop?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Mon Aug 15 14:15:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:02:49AM -0400, Paul Hilfinger wrote:
> 
> HP would like to contribute their modified version of (an older) GDB
> to the FSF.  The assignment is already in place (whereby designated
> individuals in HP can assign contributions).  Their code is not
> currently suitable for direct inclusion in the GDB sources, but
> AdaCore will be carving patches out of it (for the ia64, mostly).  I
> presume that the FSF should have a copy of the raw source in some form
> as a record of exactly what has been assigned.  Where should this go
> (what's the procedure for getting a largish file stored somewhere)?
> Thanks.

I'm of mixed minds as to whether this is necessary, but we do have a
convenient place to put the file: ftp.sourceware.org/pub/gdb/contrib/.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC



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