From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31246 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2011 18:10:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 31232 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2011 18:10:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com) (65.115.85.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:10:51 +0000 Received: from mailhost2.vmware.com (mailhost2.vmware.com [10.16.67.167]) by smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CCF13B079; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com (promd-2s-dhcp138.eng.vmware.com [10.20.124.138]) by mailhost2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE228EAB5; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:10:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D5C1329.50603@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:17:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Shebs CC: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: [obv] Merge gdb/common/Changelog to gdb/ChangeLog [Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver] References: <4D30E23F.3080103@codesourcery.com> <4D34C9DE.3040603@codesourcery.com> <4D375F44.70504@codesourcery.com> <20110215133739.GA14877@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20110215211537.GA20962@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <4D5B2999.5010906@codesourcery.com> <4D5B74E0.10102@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <4D5B74E0.10102@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-02/txt/msg00378.txt.bz2 Stan Shebs wrote: > On 2/15/11 5:34 PM, Yao Qi wrote: >> On 02/16/2011 05:15 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: >>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:37:39 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: >>>> gdb/common/ does not have its own as you created, so far its entries are contained >>>> in gdb/ChangeLog, it should be merged to gdb/ChangeLog. >>>> >>>> If I do not see any comment today I will check it in. >>> Merged it, checked in. >>> >>> >> common/ dir is to contain the common files for gdb and gdbserver, so it >> should have its own changelog file. IMO, we may have to revert this >> patch, what do you think? >> > > We've had at least semi-agreement for awhile that we should have fewer > ChangeLogs rather than more, but there's been less agreement on when and > how to merge the existing ones, so the situation is confusing. > > I suppose we want to treat pre-2011 change files as read-only, but I'm > wondering if an enterprising scripter could come up with a scheme to > pull all the 2011 change entries in subdirs into the main gdb/ChangeLog, > correctly interleaved and with subdirs added to filenames... Really? Including testsuite and doc? That does not seem like an improvement to me....