Re: mingw-get: [RFC]: package group hierarchy

On 15/09/13 23:32, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> I added the affiliate group to gdb but I still question the need.

Thanks.  I've explained, in an earlier reply, why I think we should have
it.  I'm amenable to being convinced otherwise, but I'll need more than
just "because there's not much in it".  Eventually, I'd like to see GDB
augmented by Insight again, (and perhaps that will be more feasible with
the availability of your tcl/tk package); a debuggers group is a natural
place to offer the two together, with good visibility for users.

> Also, I'm thinking we still need to move the affiliate grouping to the
> component for visual effect and have an attribute named group for the
> component.

There may be some mileage in that, but it would need changes within
mingw-get to achieve it.  If it is done, it definitely will *not* be
done like this

> <component class="bin" group="MinGW Base System" group="MinGW Compiler Suite">
> <component class="dev" group="MinGW Base System" group="MinGW Standard
> Libraries">

because that is semantically invalid XML.

> I retabbed gdb and mingw32-package-list;

Thanks.

> the others can wait on another update.

Agreed.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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