From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7705 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2006 23:12:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 7697 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Nov 2006 23:12:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:12:19 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-120-59.snap.net.nz [202.124.120.59]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4BA3D8281; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:12:40 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id E44A3BE43E; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:08:12 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17758.16602.791317.749944@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:12:00 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MI: frozen variable objects In-Reply-To: <20061117210501.GA13104@nevyn.them.org> References: <17756.56523.353271.828046@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20061116220029.GA28461@nevyn.them.org> <17756.60994.909354.46765@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20061117151857.GB31319@nevyn.them.org> <17758.8216.142597.547417@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20061117210501.GA13104@nevyn.them.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.90.14 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00192.txt.bz2 > > If the changes go in after the release I generally have six months to spot > > a bug, if they go in now I'll have roughly two weeks. > > I don't get the fuss. It's not an immensely destabilizing change or a > huge new subsystem. Why should it be treated separately from any other > patch posted in the last few months, in the later half of a release > gap? Since you are confident it DTRT, I guess there is no problem. More importantly you have the authority, so just do it. Richard Stallman has no such qualms (he calls it "exercising leadership"). Now Vladimir fetches values in one place, I have a small patch on top of that which updates references properly, I think. >... > I appreciate that you fix things, especially those MI PRs. I will > somehow get to them. But, good lord, I need more help from other > maintainers! > > And more maintainers. All: Should Nick be an MI maintainer now? I would just commit small patches (like -var-set-format) and try to provide support for the larger ones (like Variable objects laziness). -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob