From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27445 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2004 18:36:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27430 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2004 18:36:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakermmtao01.cox.net) (68.230.240.38) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Oct 2004 18:36:19 -0000 Received: from white ([68.9.64.121]) by lakermmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP id <20041003183617.JXTZ8969.lakermmtao01.cox.net@white>; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:36:17 -0400 Received: from bob by white with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEBDW-0001sE-00; Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:36:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:40:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: Felix Lee Cc: GDB Subject: Re: GDB/MI snapshots between major release's Message-ID: <20041003183618.GD7030@white> Mail-Followup-To: Felix Lee , GDB References: <20041003163918.GB7030@white> <20041003180030.6B230502AB6@stray.canids> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041003180030.6B230502AB6@stray.canids> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:00:30AM -0700, Felix Lee wrote: > Bob Rossi : > > How should front end developers deal with snapshots of GDB, that are > > taken between major versions of GDB. Several distributions > > I think you're overthinking this. if some version of gdb doesn't > fulfill the compatibility guarantee, then it's a bug in gdb, and > it shouldn't be hard to have the user install a gdb version > without the bug. at worst, you can supply your own version of > gdb. few things depend on specific gdb version. it's not a big > deal to have multiple gdb versions installed. source code > availability means you don't have to wait for the gdb cabal to > fix it, and the cabal is generally eager to take reasonable > bugfixes, which solves the long-term problem. I would say that I am not overthinking it, I am simply thinking about it. I want to make sure that CVS snapshots will support a valid MI interface. Major distro's use these snapshots, and I would like to have compatibility with them. Bob Rossi