On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 05:46:56PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Chris -- > >Since gdb-7.0 was just released, I figure you'll probably be doing a >cygwin package fairly soon. However, I know you long to drop insight -- >at least to separate it out from gdb proper. > >So, I've got a proposal for you: > >I'll do an insight-only build (sans gdb.exe, gdb-tui.exe) which installs >into /opt/insight along with the necessary (old) tcltk libs and runtime >files. It will also install a simple wrapper program as >/usr/bin/insight.exe that calls /opt/insight/bin/insight.exe and passes >its arguments, similar to > #!/bin/sh > exec /opt/insight/bin//insight.exe "$@" >but it'll be a cygwin exe, so that it's callable directly from windows. > >I'll do a win32 build of the (old) tcltk libs alone, which install into >the /usr tree, but do NOT include any development files. This will >serve as the 'upgrade' release for the tcltk package. It will include >alternatives support for the wish.exe and tclsh.exe progs. This, >combined with removing the development files, means that the new package >will (a) allow existing clients like gitk and friends to keep working, >but (b) won't interfere with any new (X-based) tcl, tk, itcl, itk, and >iwidgets packages. > > >To follow somewhat soon, but not immediately, I'll do X-based builds of >tcl, tk, itcl, itk, and iwidgets, with alternatives support for the >tclsh.exe and wish.exe progs. (These packages will include -devel >files). During the interregnum before these X-based packages are >available, maintainers of packages which are tcl/tk clients -- like gitk >-- may need to roll back to the (current) tcltk if they need to rebuild, >since the (new, proposed) tcltk backcompat package won't have the >development files. > >(And by "do a build" I mean "permanently adopt") -- and, this is a >1.7-only proposal. > >This way, you can release a console-only version of gdb-7.0 at any time, >without worrying about insight or any of these icky tcltk problems. > >Sound like a plan?
Yes. I am in the process of building gdb.exe but I don't know how much time I'll have to roll it out. My next 2.5 weeks are pretty booked. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
