From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 119024 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2017 19:33:51 -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 118994 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jun 2017 19:33:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:33:49 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKrZV-0003uV-7l for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:33:52 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKrZV-0003uJ-4V; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:33:49 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4876 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dKrZN-00072H-2D; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:33:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:33:00 -0000 Message-Id: <8360fz4r9h.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Tom Tromey CC: ratmice@gmail.com, simon.marchi@polymtl.ca, tom@tromey.com, orgads@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <87fuf3pw6t.fsf@pokyo> (message from Tom Tromey on Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:41:14 -0600) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix python compatibility with old versions of GDB Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <227db26304444bfb5ed8f699ab67e7fd@polymtl.ca> <87o9tsozn6.fsf@pokyo> <83ink03q1w.fsf@gnu.org> <27c866069cdcc4dc4b5e3cf5d3affe83@polymtl.ca> <87fuf3pw6t.fsf@pokyo> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00403.txt.bz2 > From: Tom Tromey > Cc: Simon Marchi , Eli Zaretskii , Tom Tromey , orgads@gmail.com, "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:41:14 -0600 > > Matt> Is there any argument against appending version to the data-directory > Matt> by default? > > Matt> e.g. gcc configures /usr/lib/gcc/triplet/version? I see a number of > Matt> /usr/share/*/[0-9]\.* directories here. > > It's not harmful to do this, but it's also incomplete, because there's > also the manual and the executable to consider. The executable can be easily renamed, and there's no need to keep old manuals, since the new one is mostly backward compatible (we rarely make changes that change documented behavior).