From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 27 9:54:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (mail1.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FAC14E5D for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 09:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-66-24.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.66.24]) by mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13474; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:53:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA86328; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:53:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: wghicks@bellsouth.net, obrien@NUXI.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdb 4.17 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Mar 1999 09:48:08 -0700" <199903271648.JAA04757@mt.sri.com> References: <199903271648.JAA04757@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990327125341D.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:53:41 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 27 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Nate Williams > > Then they can use the versions supplied with new versions of EGCS which > they are testing. Some of us are tracking them using CVS. The notion of a "release" in that case is as fuzzy as with our own -current and -stable branches. > > Again, we need to keep the base system as simple and small as it can be, > and adding a bunch of tests that no-else uses seems silly. That is why I said the port will remain important. I agree that the tests don't belong with the base system. Being able to use them implies a set of special tools that haven't even been prepared for public consumption yet. What's really important to me is that the EGCS compilers built in ports remain as true to the system installation as possible while also striving to build the distribution the 'EGCS' way, preserving their development support when possible. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message