From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12621 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2011 15:43:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 12613 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Nov 2011 15:43:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:43:15 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36DC2BB162; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:43:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id cJ-e18pIyuca; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:43:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F182BB073; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:43:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B6AD1145615; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:43:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:43:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Yao Qi Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: preparing the upcoming GDB 7.4 release Message-ID: <20111110154311.GA5390@adacore.com> References: <20111107175402.GI14508@adacore.com> <4EBBA2E8.2000203@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EBBA2E8.2000203@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00274.txt.bz2 > I hope `pending tracepoint' which I am working on can be in 7.4 > release. Patches are nearly done, and most (70%) of them were sent > for review in this patch set, > > [patch 0/8] Download tracepoint locations when tracing is running > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00168.html For new features like this, I think you need to convince the Global Maintainers as a group that there is a good reason for waiting. Reasons could be: - It's only going to be a few more days at most - Some other features would not be usable without it - It's a killer feature - etc In the meantime, I've added this item to the optional TODO list. -- Joel