From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11731 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2003 19:07:27 -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 11717 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2003 19:07:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Oct 2003 19:07:27 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.22 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7Jeg-0003ZF-Eq; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:07:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 19:07:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Elena Zannoni , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Michael Snyder Subject: Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8] Message-ID: <20031008190726.GB13579@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Elena Zannoni , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Michael Snyder References: <20031008165534.GA8718@nevyn.them.org> <16260.19698.165606.470200@localhost.redhat.com> <3F845FA9.8010001@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F845FA9.8010001@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00238.txt.bz2 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:04:09PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >This is certainly the right direction. We have discussed this in very > >general terms (I believe at the gcc conference), but I don't remember > >a discussion on the gdb lists. Since this seems quite a big rewrite (I > >am not sure, I just saw all this stuff appearing at once), how about > >using the branching approach? It has worked well for a few features now. > > Honestly, yes. As core maintainers we should be willing to do as we ask. 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. Having been asked twice to use a branch I'll investigate it. Not for these patches, however, which are designed to be non-behavior-changing cleanups. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer