Re: RFA: implement ambiguous linespec proposal

Joel Brobecker
2011-11-16T01:58:56Z

> > I'm having second thoughts about this. Today it seems slightly crazy to
> > check in such a huge patch just before a release. Any other thoughts on
> > this?
>
> Maybe to formalize more the GDB releng process? I thought before branching
> any development is valid - like stage1 of GCC.

IMO, it is (allowed). A little bit of stabilization before the branch
would be nice, but we have the branch to do any stabilization, if
required.

That being said, if the patch is huge and touches a sensitive part of
the debugger, we might be setting ourselves up for another situation
similar to what we got with the physname patch.

So, I'm personally 50-50 on this. If we want to compromise, we can
branch 7.4 without this patch, but start 7.5 shortly after (within
a few weeks, or a month after). I agree with Pierre that this is
a very nice improvement, so we should try to get it out in a release
sooner rather than later.

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Joel