[patch/rfc] More NEWS for 6.3

[patch/rfc] More NEWS for 6.3

[Andrew Cagney]

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Hello,

This fleshes out the 6.3 news entry a bit.  Ada is still missing.

comments?
Andrew

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2004-11-01  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@gnu.org>

	* gdb/NEWS: Mention internationalization, m32r-*-linux-gnu, 'p'
	packet, obsolete configurations, end-of-life deprecated_registers.

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.163
diff -p -u -r1.163 NEWS
--- NEWS	25 Oct 2004 18:50:09 -0000	1.163
+++ NEWS	1 Nov 2004 15:59:20 -0000
@@ -14,6 +14,59 @@ by GCC with the option -feliminate-dwarf
 proprietary compilers.  With GCC, you must use GCC 3.3.4 or later
 to use -feliminate-dwarf2-dups.
 
+* Internationalization
+
+When supported by the host system, GDB will be built with
+internationalization (libintl).  The task of marking up the sources is
+continued, we're looking forward to our first translation.
+
+* New native configurations
+
+GNU/Linux/m32r					m32r-*-linux-gnu
+
+* Remote 'p' packet
+
+GDB's remote protocol now includes support for the 'p' packet and is
+used to fetch individual registers.
+
+* END-OF-LIFE registers[] compatibility module
+
+GDB's internal register infrastructure has been completely rewritten.
+The new infrastructure making possible the implementation of key new
+features including 32x64 (e.g., 64-bit amd64 GDB debugging a 32-bit
+i386 application).
+
+GDB 6.3 will be the last release to include the the registers[]
+compatibility module that allowed out-of-date configurations to
+continue to work.  This change directly impacts the following
+configurations:
+
+hppa-*-hpux
+ia64-*-aix
+mips-*-irix*
+*-*-lynx
+mips-*-linux-gnu
+sds protocol
+xdr protocol
+powerpc bdm protocol
+
+Unless there is activity to revive these configurations, they will be
+made OBSOLETE in GDB 6.4, and REMOVED from GDB 6.5.
+
+* OBSOLETE configurations and files
+
+Configurations that have been declared obsolete in this release have
+been commented out.  Unless there is activity to revive these
+configurations, the next release of GDB will have their sources
+permanently REMOVED.
+
+h8300-*-*
+mcore-*-*
+mn10300-*-*
+ns32k-*-*
+sh64-*-*
+v850-*-*
+
 *** Changes in GDB 6.2.1:
 
 * MIPS `break main; run' gave an heuristic-fence-post warning

Re: [patch/rfc] More NEWS for 6.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:00:43 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> 
> This fleshes out the 6.3 news entry a bit.  Ada is still missing.
> 
> comments?

Fine with me, although I suggest to lose the i18n part, since without
a message catalog, we cannot say we support it.

Re: [patch/rfc] More NEWS for 6.3

[Andrew Cagney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:00:43 -0500
>>From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>>
>>This fleshes out the 6.3 news entry a bit.  Ada is still missing.
>>
>>comments?
> 
> 
> Fine with me, although I suggest to lose the i18n part, since without
> a message catalog, we cannot say we support it.

(well I do have a "strine" catalogue if you're interested :-)
I've checked it in (6.3 and mainline).

Andrew

Re: [patch/rfc] More NEWS for 6.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:42:45 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > Fine with me, although I suggest to lose the i18n part, since without
> > a message catalog, we cannot say we support it.
> 
> (well I do have a "strine" catalogue if you're interested :-)
> I've checked it in (6.3 and mainline).

Why did you say "strine"?  By ``a catalog'' I meant the gdb.pot file,
which is in English, not in any specific language (yes, I know what
"strine" is).

Anyway, it's not enough to have a catalog, nor a translation for a
specific language.  We need to register the "gdb" domain with the
Translation Project and then submit gdb.pot to the TP robot, so that
translators could work on producing the XX.po files.  We should also
wait for a while after gdb.pot becomes available from the TP web
pages, to give translators time to translate, and finally we should
download the XX.po files and include them with the release tarball.
Then, and only then, we could say in good faith that GDB supports
i18n.

In case you didn't know, the details of this are spelled out here:

  http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/maintainers.html