Re: RFC: gdb web page patch for git conversion

André Pönitz
2013-09-04T19:34:07Z

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 06:09:43AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > My semi-baked plan for the web site redesign, as seen at
> >
> > http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/WebsiteRedesign
> >
> > includes a git migration.
>
> Interesting plan!
>
> One of my complaints about the current website is that it's really
> obscure which version of the GDB documentation is available where,
> and whether we (the developers) would prefer you to look at the
> documentation from a release, or from the HEAD.

As a somewhat related, general remark: It would be nice if GDB documentation
tagged new features with the version in which they are first implemented.

From a frontend developer's point of view the decision which feature should
to be supported is often driven by what version of GDB common distributions
ship. Having a feature tagged as "new and officially supported in version
x.y.z" is a more robust approach than trying to deduce "official" blessing
from change logs, patches, and NEWS entries.

Andre'