From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 95248 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2018 18:56:26 -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 95238 invoked by uid 89); 14 Sep 2018 18:56:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:896, our 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; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:56:24 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0tGL-0000QC-4a for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:56:23 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52535) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0tGJ-0000NM-4Y; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:56:16 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2773 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g0tGI-0001XB-8z; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:56:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:56:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83bm8zkiwq.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Tom Tromey CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <87tvmr3olr.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:45:04 -0600) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update get_standard_cache_dir for macOS References: <20180914145938.12186-1-tom@tromey.com> <83ftybkjpj.fsf@gnu.org> <87tvmr3olr.fsf@tromey.com> 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: 2018-09/txt/msg00461.txt.bz2 > From: Tom Tromey > Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:45:04 -0600 > > >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Eli> (I thought that "on most systems" is the way to avoid describing what > Eli> happens on each system out there, and I don't see why we should be > Eli> eager to cater to macOS so much. But that's me.) > > I can't tell if this is a critique of the documentation or the code. Documentation only, of course. > For the documentation, I'm happy to change it however you like. I just voiced my opinion that this detail about macOS, and only about it, seems at odds with our general tendency not to describe proprietary systems in too much detail. But I'm not going to block this change just because I was surprised. I wonder what others think.