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Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 09:34:16 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: rebasing new packages?!
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On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:31:48AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT 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.

Having STL would really speed things up.  When I saw you adding
libstdc++, I thought implied STL but I was mistaken.  Can we enable STL
for setup.exe?

> 2) I think that Jason's design needed some tweaking.

Yes, mainly in the area of how I persisted the free and used lists.

Additionally, another major issue to resolve is how to deal with DLLs
that get corrupted by rebasing.

Jason