Re: [PATCH 5/7] PR gdb/15224 , Change the default set history filename to ~/.gdb_history.

Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-22T17:49:33Z

> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:24:13 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: mbilal <mbilal@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
>
> At startup time, if "set history filename" hasn't been
> used (tracked with a new global flag), then check whether there's
> a $cwd/.gdb_history file, and if so, output a warning stating that
> it's no longer read by default. The warning could also
> suggest adding "set history filename .gdb_history" to .gdbinit
> to get back the old behavior.

That's even more annoying, IMO.

I think gratuitous backward incompatibility is evil, especially in
programs, like GDB, where there are no good facilities for
version-specific scripting. We are breaking scripts out there for no
good reason, and we aren't giving the users of those scripts _any_
means to get their previous behavior cleanly.

But I know I'm somehow in the minority here. It's probably the age or
something.