Re: GDB 6.1 "frozen"

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:17:12 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> 
> Long standing todo item:  GCC has a single copy of these and a few other 
> files in the doc/ directory.  The README, INSTALL, ... files are all 
> generated from a single source.

Ah, that one...

Yes, I know about GCC's setup, but I cannot say that I see how it is
so immensely useful to justify any significant effort in doing
something similar in GDB.  IMO, there's nothing wrong with maintaining
a couple of text files.

Also, it is my personal opinion is that text files produced by
makeinfo look awkward, almost ugly, and therefore doing what GCC does
is only justified for large documents that need to be distributed in
Info and other formats as well as in plain text.  Like a FAQ, for
example.

So I'm not going to work on that or encourage others to do it.  But if
someone steps forward and does the job, I won't object to using it if
the results are good and generally useful.

> At present there is a lot of redundancy.

What redundancy is that?

> We should also throw open the question of how to best present release 
> information such as our list of known to work systems, our most serious 
> problems, known bugs, perhaphs even some test results (just, please not 
> today and not for 6.1 :-).

By all means, let's discuss it whenever you are ready.  It's not
urgent, so no need to start that now.