16 May 2012 16:44
Re: [RFC] Add ARI directory to gdb sources
Joel Brobecker <brobecker <at> adacore.com>
2012-05-16 14:44:20 GMT
2012-05-16 14:44:20 GMT
> The question of the location where we should add this script in gdb > source arose. Joel suggested to put it directly into gdb directory. Yeah, I didn't say it, but I agree it was a poor suggestion, especially in light of: > But after looking at the suggestion, it appears that you can't just > use gdb_ari.sh alone, the update-web-ari script also uses > gdb_find.sh script for instance, and a modified version of this > update-web-air should probably also be added. Here's what I think: Everything that generates is required to generate the HTML code should be moved to the GDB directory. gdb/ari/ seems fine to me, but others might want to comment. Unless the location is critical to the implementation, which I hope it won't be, you can start working on the move and submit patches. It should be relatively easy to change the names if other suggestions appear. On a user-interface level, it would be nice if the script that generates the HTML was callable from out of tree, a little like configure. I could create the HTML is a directory called "ari" located in the current directory, for instance... > writing as unofficial ARI maitainer As far as I am concerned, you are the official ARI Maintainer :). We'll make that official-official as soon as the code is moved to the GDB repository by adding a section in the MAINTAINERS file. -- -- Joel
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