From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31188 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2003 20:36:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31159 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2003 20:36:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Oct 2003 20:36:13 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h98KaCM28442 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:36:12 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h98KaBc16663; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:36:11 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.1]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h98KaAdT013332; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:36:11 -0400 Received: by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 469) id 9F5512CCB2; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:47:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Elena Zannoni MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16260.30668.971641.500832@localhost.redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:36:00 -0000 To: David Carlton Cc: Andrew Cagney , Elena Zannoni , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Michael Snyder Subject: Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8] In-Reply-To: References: <20031008165534.GA8718@nevyn.them.org> <16260.19698.165606.470200@localhost.redhat.com> <3F845FA9.8010001@redhat.com> <20031008190726.GB13579@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00257.txt.bz2 David Carlton writes: > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:07:26 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz said: > > > I don't ask for people to use branches, because it's a bloody > > nuisance. Once all patches have gone onto a branch, reproducing a > > series of logically contained patches that are small enough to be > > acceptable to the GDB Gods is an additional week or month of work. > > I prefer when possible to do work in increments, on mainline. > > I don't see any reason for a branch here. The extra work is a pain, > and the patches have already started generating a nice amount of > productive discussion, more (I suspect) than they would have gotten if > they were on a branch. Incremental development on mainline is good; > branching might be appropriate if you're trying to chose between two > choices and undoing the wrong choice would be a fair amount of work, > or if you can't figure out how to do something incrementally, but I > don't think that's the situation with these patches. > > David Carlton > carlton@kealia.com FWIW Some background on this seems to be in these threads: (more detailed here) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2003-03/msg00349.html (vaguely here) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-03/msg00482.html I thought there was some other discussion but I cannot find it. elena