From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27922 invoked by alias); 12 May 2006 12:49:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 27899 invoked by uid 22791); 12 May 2006 12:49:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 May 2006 12:49:42 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FeX5Q-00011X-B9; Fri, 12 May 2006 08:49:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:54:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch Message-ID: <20060512124940.GB3860@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20060512011730.GA26655@brasko.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2006-05/txt/msg00237.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20060512125400.iQXJl1Ox7-q_ZRfdmclQBxgsVu6zr2dCORQSQYWW5hY@z> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:53:43AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say here, exactly. > Explaining why we did something in the past does not belong in the > manual (except maybe in a footnote, if it is _very_ important to > mention history). While I agree about "why", I think "what" we did in the past does belong in the manual in some cases. Not so much for the CLI, which is covered by most of the manual, but for the remote protocol and GDB/MI where most everyone interested in them will be interested in supporting multiple versions of GDB... -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery