From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1478 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2003 19:49:54 -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 1471 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2003 19:49:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO barry.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2003 19:49:53 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by barry.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AUtHo-00055e-00; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:49:16 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id 71F004B412; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:49:29 -0500 (EST) To: kevinb@redhat.com Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses Cc: drow@mvista.com, eliz@elta.co.il, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <20031212194929.71F004B412@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:49:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00336.txt.bz2 My two cents: (1) I don't like it when patches are chained to other work. ("You must do Y if you touch X".) If fixing X is good, and it does not make Y _worse_, then I'm fine with X alone. I know this isn't gdb policy but it's my preference. One exception to this is copyright notices. (2) The problem with cleaning up old code is that there's so much code which never gets tested. That's a QA problem. I would like to test more, and I've just recently gotten access to HP's test drive. But basically, I think we should be more aggressive about deprecating things. If nobody submits test results for a platform to the gdb-testers group for a long time, then I would like to drop that platform. Michael C