Re: Converting CGEN from CVS to git

* Andrew Burgess <[email protected]> [2019-03-06 13:28:31 +0000]:

> * 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.

Hi Frank,

Did you get a chance to look through the conversion?

How would you feel if I reached out to the sourceware overseers list
to get an empty git repository setup (I guess that's the right place
to ask)?

Having the repository setup doesn't mean we're committed to a specific
conversion (or even converting at all), but having the repository
setup will probably take a while, so maybe we should get that ball
rolling.  Then once we agree on a specific conversion we can push it.

Thanks for your time,

Andrew