rebasing new packages?!

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Thu May 2 17:31:00 GMT 2002



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:28 AM

> I thought that the last time this subject came up, the consensus was 
> that Jason's code should go into the cinstall area (now, of 
> course, that 
> means the setup repository).  The standalone rebase.exe 
> should be built 
> within that project, along with setup.exe which would 
> leverage the same 
> code.
> 
> That way, there's no possibility that the two programs would get 
> out-of-sync with respect to the /etc/rebase.conf (?) information and 
> file format.

Yes, and at that point we had two issues:
1) We couldn't use libstdc++, let alone the STL. The STL still isn't
available - beyond whats in libg++-3.
2) I think that Jason's design needed some tweaking.

Rob



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