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From: Steve G <lin...@ya...> - 2003-10-16 13:12:49
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>I'm looking at distributing crocus as an independent skin, >like Josef W's Calltree. That's a shame unless its your personal preference. The main valgrind homepage does not link to your homepage and a lot of people might not be able to find it (or other skins for that matter). It would be nice if there was a list of resources on the main homepage that pointed to these other skins. Then you have the problem of rolling a skin into whatever version of valgrind is on your system. Sometimes its easy, sometimes there's fixups. I think that developers will get the most benefit if some of these newer skins were rolled in so that they are getting more use. Then there's another scenario...I am co-maintainer of xinetd. Occassionally in the past someone would report a problem, perhaps a core dumper. I have asked people to run valgrind on their copy of xinetd on their system if I couldn't reproduce the problem. These people are not necessarily programmers and if they were faced with resolving diff's, I would not be able to get as high a quality of feedback. Granted, they do not have to do this with memcheck. But based on the problem, crocus might be a good one to have them to run. (Not all problems reported on the xinetd mail list are about xinetd. Sometimes they are having issues with the daemon that xinetd is supposed to be starting for them.) >Massif might be rolled into the CVS HEAD sometime, though. Or >I could distribute that separately too. Not sure. Out of curiosity, why is this a candidate for the main distribution? It has dependancies on other libraries which complicates things. I'm not trying to disparage the Massif skin, I think its a good thing. I'm just curious why a skin that complicates the build is more likely to get into the main distribution than one that doesn't. Just curious... :) I guess my point is that valgrind is now an essential tool in my research & projects. I'd like to see more tests and easier ways of pulling that all together for non-programmers. Thanks, -Steve Grubb __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com |