From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3290 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2004 19:35:49 -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 3277 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2004 19:35:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO epic.mail.pas.earthlink.net) (207.217.120.181) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Oct 2004 19:35:48 -0000 Received: from ip216-26-76-19.dsl.du.teleport.com ([216.26.76.19] helo=stray.canids) by epic.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CEC95-0002kx-00 for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:35:47 -0700 Received: from stray.canids (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by stray.canids (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE51502AB6 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:35:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Felix Lee To: GDB Subject: Re: GDB/MI snapshots between major release's References: <20041003163918.GB7030@white> <20041003180030.6B230502AB6@stray.canids> <20041003183618.GD7030@white> In-Reply-To: <20041003183618.GD7030@white> on Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:36:18 EDT from Bob Rossi Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:39:00 -0000 Message-Id: <20041003193547.1DE51502AB6@stray.canids> X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 Bob Rossi : > 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. the gdb testsuite has tests that exercise the MI versions. 'successfully passing the MI tests' is a form of compatibility guarantee. if the existing tests aren't a strong enough guarantee, then new tests can be added. the bigger problem is insufficient manpower to fix known failures. --