From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13975 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2011 22:01:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 13967 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2011 22:01:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:01:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 2337 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2011 22:01:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO macbook-2.local) (stan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 16 Feb 2011 22:01:21 -0000 Message-ID: <4D5C4930.10806@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:03:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 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> <4D5C1329.50603@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <4D5C1329.50603@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00397.txt.bz2 On 2/16/11 10:10 AM, Michael Snyder wrote: > 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.... > But what actual problem does it present? Many patches have doc and testsuite changes, and it would be helpful to see them all at once as part of a change entry. (In fact, CodeSourcery has been doing exactly this for its local changes.) Ironically, the testsuite originally had a separate ChangeLog because testsuites were packaged and distributed separately for some time. I don't know why doc got its own ChangeLog, the 1991-era Cygnus might have been considering a multi-tool doc-package scheme of some sort. Stan