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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: palves@redhat.com, brobecker@adacore.com,
	markus.t.metzger@intel.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831szlbwqt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161012114515.GA26977@host1.jankratochvil.net> (message from	Jan Kratochvil on Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:45:15 +0200)

> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:45:15 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, brobecker@adacore.com,
>         markus.t.metzger@intel.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> Nowadays software is no longer distributed on floppy disks by snail mail.
> I do not see a reason for artificial requirements of "5 years".  Fixes are
> being delivered by automated update systems in days and new releases with
> integration testing happen in months.

That may all be true, but changing the system compiler is still a
serious decision, unrelated to distribution and/or update speeds, and
not always even in the hands of the user who wants to build his or her
GDB which was just released.

The nuisance of having to upgrade half of your system just because you
want to have one package of the latest release is real for users who
need to do during most of their day something other than debug build
failures and install updated dependencies.  I was hoping we didn't
want to increase those annoyances.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-12 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-10 16:46 [PATCH 0/3] More cleanup elimination / gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 17:49   ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-10 18:03     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11  6:48   ` Metzger, Markus T
2016-10-11 10:23     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 10:53       ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-11 11:17       ` Metzger, Markus T
2016-10-11 11:43         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 13:58           ` Yao Qi
2016-10-11 14:05           ` Trevor Saunders
2016-10-11 12:16       ` Joel Brobecker
2016-10-11 13:46         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 14:47           ` Joel Brobecker
2016-10-11 15:17             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 16:24               ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 16:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 17:41                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 18:37                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 19:19                       ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 20:47                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 21:32                           ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12  6:34                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12  8:11                               ` Metzger, Markus T
2016-10-12  9:31                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 10:12                                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:05                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:25                                       ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:45                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 12:12                                           ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 10:28                                 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:07                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:19                                     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:41                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:55                                         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13  0:38                                   ` [PATCH] Enable C++11 starting with gcc 4.8 (was: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr) Pedro Alves
2016-10-13  0:45                                     ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: Import AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX from the GNU Autoconf Archive Pedro Alves
2016-10-13  0:45                                     ` [PATCH 2/2] gdb: Enable C++11 if available Pedro Alves
2016-10-12  9:37                               ` [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 10:51                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:15                                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:40                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:45                                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-12 11:56                                     ` Luis Machado
2016-10-12 12:03                                     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-13  9:07                                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-13 10:07                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 10:27                                           ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 13:22                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 13:36                                               ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 13:59                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 14:04                                                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 15:06                                                     ` Joel Brobecker
2016-10-13 10:46                                           ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-13 11:15                                             ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 13:28                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 13:42                                               ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 14:07                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 19:23                       ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-11 20:54                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 21:28                           ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-12  6:23                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 21:16                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-11 17:15                 ` Luis Machado
2016-10-11 18:21                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 16:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] 'struct parse_expression *' -> gdb::unique_ptr<expression> Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 16:58 ` [PATCH 0/3] More cleanup elimination / gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-16  7:05   ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-17 13:57     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-17 14:07       ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-17 14:59         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 13:46   ` Pedro Alves

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