From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 42208 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2015 16:10:01 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 42195 invoked by uid 89); 13 Apr 2015 16:10:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:10:00 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t3DG9p5u020542 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:09:51 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t3DG9mju024974; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:09:49 -0400 Message-ID: <552BEA4C.70806@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:10:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: brobecker@adacore.com, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ktietz@redhat.com, fercerpav@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections References: <20140209130501.GA15183@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83k3d4utwr.fsf@gnu.org> <20140209164748.GA25629@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20140209170821.GI2320@home.lan> <20150322163922.GA31444@host1.jankratochvil.net> <83sicxrn1b.fsf@gnu.org> <20150322170932.GA32091@host1.jankratochvil.net> <83iodssz5g.fsf@gnu.org> <5510553F.1040203@redhat.com> <83k2y7r1xg.fsf@gnu.org> <20150323191232.GI5438@adacore.com> <83h9tbr09w.fsf@gnu.org> <552BDCDB.9080708@redhat.com> <83oamscakq.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83oamscakq.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-04/txt/msg00466.txt.bz2 On 04/13/2015 04:27 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > (*) - I do think though that if someone actually tries running GDB >> > on such older versions, and finds support has been broken for a >> > few releases, we should declare such versions unsupported, instead of >> > fixing things until they work, because it clearly means that nobody >> > has been paying attention already for years. > Unless that person, or someone else, also offers to fix whatever > problems they found, or at least work with us on finding the bug(s), I > think I agree. Yeah, it goes back to the original point that what matters most is whether there's people actively working on making sure the code still builds and works on such platforms, taking care of user reported bugs, etc., not the age of the platform. Thanks, Pedro Alves