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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb's README file
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100603153926.GL3019@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C075FE9.5050104@codesourcery.com>

> GDB's README file is quite stale, beginning with:
> 		     README for gdb-6.3 release
> 		     Updated 20, November, 2006
> 
> this confused a user, who thought they had 6.3 sources, rather than
> more recent ones.

Yeah, this is something I had meant to work on for quite a while.
The README is updated at release time to fix the version number,
the problem is mostly with the HEAD sources.

> The attached patch removes all the 6.3ness, referring to a generic
> VERSION.  I also removed the listing of the top-level directory --
> it's rather specific and I don't think useful.

I am happy with that approach. I'd give it a couple of days for people
to have a chance to comment, and then commit.

Thanks,
-- 
Joel


      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-03 15:39 UTC|newest]

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2010-06-03  7:56 Nathan Sidwell
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