From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24511 invoked by alias); 12 May 2006 13:58:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 24503 invoked by uid 22791); 12 May 2006 13:58:05 -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 13:58:04 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FeY9a-0001gi-El for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 09:58:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:02:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch Message-ID: <20060512135802.GA6472@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20060512011730.GA26655@brasko.net> <20060512124940.GB3860@nevyn.them.org> 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/msg00241.txt.bz2 On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:53:28PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > In general, if some external package needs to support multiple GDB > versions, their authors will need to look in the manuals of those > older versions. Is there somewhere appropriate to record this sort of change, in more detail than would fit in NEWS, if you think that the manual is not the place for it? This sort of information is incredibly useful when e.g. upgrading; there's no easy way for users to "diff" the manual. > This reminds me: perhaps we should mention major incompatible changes > in NEWS, suitably marked to the effect that they break backward > compatibility. Yes, certainly. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery