From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31044 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2004 18:40:38 -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 31037 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2004 18:40:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Oct 2004 18:40:37 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEBHg-0002it-UR for ; Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:40:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:42:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: GDB Subject: Re: GDB/MI snapshots between major release's Message-ID: <20041003184036.GA10453@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: GDB References: <20041003163918.GB7030@white> <20041003180030.6B230502AB6@stray.canids> <20041003183618.GD7030@white> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041003183618.GD7030@white> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:36:18PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote: > 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. So, use the last frozen MI version supported by that snapshot? -- Daniel Jacobowitz