From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25712 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2002 03:17:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25705 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2002 03:17:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Apr 2002 03:17:52 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772C13D58; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:17:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CC8C6D8.4010405@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:17:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020424 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: "David S. Miller" , shebs@apple.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: which patches to review References: <20020423.220943.39181580.davem@redhat.com> <3CC6D4E2.E5858735@apple.com> <3CC6E84D.2090403@cygnus.com> <20020424.103856.00478620.davem@redhat.com> <3CC8137D.6050809@cygnus.com> <20020425211324.A6519@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01065.txt.bz2 > As acceptence criteria, they are simple and transparent. I don't think >> me stiching up some sort of cosy deal where you were some how excempted >> from this would go down very well :-) > > > Again with due respect, I've got to object to the point of view in this > message. I wouldn't say that becoming multi-arch is "one of GDB's > overriding objectives". It's something that we all agree would be good > for GDB; it's something that I agree with you should happen before our > next release, which is not scheduled for at least four months IIRC. > But if it is an "overriding objective", it's only so for you. My > overriding objective is for GDB to improve. The overall objective is obviously to make GDB better. To that end, longer term objectives sometimes need to override more immediate ones. I consider multi-arch to be one such objective. enjoy, Andrew PS: The hypothetical 6.0 is two releases away - ~nov-dec.