Re: Converting CGEN from CVS to git

* Frank Ch. Eigler <[email protected]> [2019-03-03 17:38:40 -0500]:

> Hi -
> 
> > [...]
> > Could we not start in a separate repository, then if we find that
> > there is some problem that would be made easier by having the source
> > in bintuils-gdb we can do that later?
> > 
> > Part of my motivation for patching binutils-gdb to not require CGEN
> > in-tree was a vision of a future where CGEN would exist as a true
> > standalone utility that was simply used by binutils (like gcc, flex,
> > etc).
> 
> We've dropped the ball on this thread.  I'd be happy to look over
> someone else's cvs-git conversion for this (src/cgen + src/cpu?),
> or try my own.  There are no blockers to having it on sourceware.

The original thread included links to my attempt at getting this done:

The mail is here, this describes the process I went through and
some of the choices I made.

  https://www.sourceware.org/ml/cgen/2019-q1/msg00000.html

The link to my conversion is here:

  [email protected]:T-J-Teru/cgen.git

And the scripts I used to make the conversion (if you wanted to build
on them at all) are here:

  [email protected]:T-J-Teru/cgen-2-git.git

I would value any feedback you have.

I hadn't forgotten this thread, February got pretty busy for me, but I
had scheduled some time this month to try and move this forward.

I look forward to your feedback.

Thanks,
Andrew