Re: GDB 9.1 Release: Creating the branch on *WED* Dec 11th!

Joel Brobecker
2019-12-13T23:47:50Z

> > > I think these should be dropped from the release. They've required
> > > fairly extensive rewriting. Also, I haven't completed the rewrites from
> > > the last round of reviews, and due to work stuff I'm not likely to in
> > > the next couple of weeks.
> >
> > Thanks for the update on those. It seems wise to drop them indeed.
>
> Does this mean the pretest published yesterday doesn't represent the
> upcoming release well enough, as these changesets are still part of
> it? If so, can we please have a better pretest soon? I planned on
> building the pretest on MinGW soon, as I've seen many changes that
> might "need work" in the MinGW port.

What we mean is that we we will not be including these patches in
the GDB 9.1 release. So you can pre-test this pre-release. At
this point, we no longer have any issue that's been identified
as being release blocking (famous last words, as this is the point
when problems start show up).

One thing I'd like to suggest is if you could do a first pre-check
when I announce that the branch creation is a few days away.
If you find something sufficiently bad, this would be grounds
for me to either hold the branch creation, or else hold the
creation of the pre-release. I don't who else could help with that,
because I don't anyone but you building GDB with the configuration
that you use -- I know we build a MinGW version of GDB on Windows,
but we use MinGW64 and do not see the issues that you have been
reporting in the past -- so aside from you, I don't know who else
can do it.

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Joel