From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1676 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2016 18:06:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 1661 invoked by uid 89); 16 Feb 2016 18:06:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=HTo:D*cx, amended, Hx-languages-length:1299, HTo:U*patrick X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:06:20 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVk0q-0004kU-IA for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:06:18 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59870) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVk0q-0004kQ-F6; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:06:12 -0500 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3284 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aVk0p-0005lf-LK; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:06:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:06:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83bn7gwmw1.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Patrick Palka CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Patrick Palka on Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:23:24 -0500) Subject: Re: Updating Readline Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <83egccwqti.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00485.txt.bz2 > From: Patrick Palka > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:23:24 -0500 > Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > This attempt to update Readline in GDB: > > > > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00422.html > > > > ended up not doing it. We are still at Readline 6.2, AFAICT. > > > > Is there any hope of updating to a newer Readline? Please? > > Updating to readline 7.0 (alpha) causes a lot of testsuite regressions > on a number of (non-x86) platforms. Yes, I know. That old thread says that, and it was the reason the upgrade never happened back then. > It may be safer to first upgrade to readline 6.3 Does it make sense to upgrade to 6.3 when 7.0 is already in beta? We do want eventually start using a newer Readline, I hope. If so, we need to start fixing the problems the update causes, otherwise we will be left behind. Either our tests need to be amended or Readline 7.0 is not a simple drop-in replacement, and more of our code needs to be changed. But I don't think it makes sense to do nothing, or start using an old version of Readline. We will be just deferring the problem for later, and it won't fix itself, I think. Thanks.