From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31082 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2011 19:31:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 31074 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2011 19:31:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:31:36 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1GJVQOk000944 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:31:27 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1GJVQ45030091; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:31:26 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p1GJVPLE019650; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:31:25 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id EC49D378C97; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:31:24 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: Michael Snyder Cc: Stan Shebs , "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: [obv] Merge gdb/common/Changelog to gdb/ChangeLog [Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver] References: <4D30E23F.3080103@codesourcery.com> <4D34C9DE.3040603@codesourcery.com> <4D375F44.70504@codesourcery.com> <20110215133739.GA14877@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20110215211537.GA20962@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <4D5B2999.5010906@codesourcery.com> <4D5B74E0.10102@codesourcery.com> <4D5C1329.50603@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:40:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4D5C1329.50603@vmware.com> (Michael Snyder's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:10:49 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00382.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Snyder writes: Stan> I suppose we want to treat pre-2011 change files as read-only, but Stan> I'm wondering if an enterprising scripter could come up with a Stan> scheme to pull all the 2011 change entries in subdirs into the main Stan> gdb/ChangeLog, correctly interleaved and with subdirs added to Stan> filenames... Michael> Really? Including testsuite and doc? That does not seem like an Michael> improvement to me.... Last time around we kept separate ones in testsuite and doc, IIRC because you objected. Nobody is proposing changing that, but I'd still rather avoid adding new ones. To look at it another way -- why not add one for every subdir? testsuite/*/, cli/, mi/? Would that improve things? I think it is just a historical accident that things are the way they are. Tom