From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: mbilal@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] PR gdb/15224 , Change the default set history filename to ~/.gdb_history.
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 17:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bo82ucpv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519CFF3D.4080001@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:24:13 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: mbilal <mbilal@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
>
> At startup time, if "set history filename" hasn't been
> used (tracked with a new global flag), then check whether there's
> a $cwd/.gdb_history file, and if so, output a warning stating that
> it's no longer read by default. The warning could also
> suggest adding "set history filename .gdb_history" to .gdbinit
> to get back the old behavior.
That's even more annoying, IMO.
I think gratuitous backward incompatibility is evil, especially in
programs, like GDB, where there are no good facilities for
version-specific scripting. We are breaking scripts out there for no
good reason, and we aren't giving the users of those scripts _any_
means to get their previous behavior cleanly.
But I know I'm somehow in the minority here. It's probably the age or
something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-06 9:39 [PATCH 0/7] PR gdb/15224 should "set history save on" by default mbilal
2013-05-06 9:40 ` [PATCH 1/7] " mbilal
2013-05-06 9:42 ` [PATCH 2/7] " mbilal
2013-05-06 9:43 ` [PATCH 3/7] " mbilal
[not found] ` <51877BC6.6080007@codesourcery.com>
2013-05-06 9:47 ` [PATCH 4/7] " mbilal
2013-05-07 9:40 ` Abid, Hafiz
2013-05-08 17:14 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-06 9:48 ` [PATCH 5/7] " mbilal
2013-05-08 8:24 ` mbilal
2013-05-15 11:08 ` [PATCH 5/7] PR gdb/15224 , Change the default set history filename to ~/.gdb_history mbilal
2013-05-15 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-15 12:07 ` mbilal
2013-05-15 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-22 17:24 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-22 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-05-22 18:08 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-22 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-22 19:39 ` Pedro Alves
2013-08-01 12:43 ` Muhammad Bilal
2013-08-01 15:41 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-01 22:17 ` Doug Evans
2013-05-22 12:02 ` mbilal
2013-05-08 17:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] PR gdb/15224 should "set history save on" by default Pedro Alves
2013-05-06 9:49 ` [PATCH 6/7] " mbilal
2013-05-06 9:51 ` [PATCH 7/7] " mbilal
2013-05-07 10:17 ` Abid, Hafiz
2013-05-08 17:08 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-08 8:25 ` mbilal
2013-05-08 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-08 17:18 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-08 8:23 ` [PATCH 4/7] " mbilal
2013-05-09 11:12 ` mbilal
2013-05-09 12:05 ` Pedro Alves
[not found] ` <51936853.7050106@codesourcery.com>
[not found] ` <51936944.80108@codesourcery.com>
2013-05-15 10:56 ` [PATCH 4/7] Disable history saving for testsuit mbilal
2013-05-22 12:02 ` mbilal
2013-05-22 17:27 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-08 8:23 ` [PATCH 3/7] PR gdb/15224 should "set history save on" by default mbilal
2013-05-08 16:24 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-06 11:26 ` [PATCH 1/7] " Pedro Alves
[not found] ` <5188AA15.5010904@codesourcery.com>
2013-05-07 7:19 ` [PATCH 1/7] PR gdb/15224 "set history filename" to by immediately converted to absolute path mbilal
2013-05-07 8:39 ` Pedro Alves
[not found] ` <5188AC27.1050407@codesourcery.com>
2013-05-07 7:26 ` [PATCH 2/7] PR gdb/15224 fix for Unify interactivity tests to use input_from_terminal_p mbilal
2013-05-08 8:22 ` mbilal
2013-05-08 16:21 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-09 11:08 ` mbilal
2013-05-09 11:32 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-07 12:44 ` [PATCH 1/7] PR gdb/15224 "set history filename" to by immediately converted to absolute path mbilal
2013-05-08 8:22 ` mbilal
[not found] ` <519366E2.90105@codesourcery.com>
2013-05-15 10:46 ` mbilal
2013-05-22 17:51 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-22 12:04 ` mbilal
2013-05-08 15:46 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-08 17:25 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-07 10:01 ` [PATCH 0/7] PR gdb/15224 should "set history save on" by default Abid, Hafiz
2013-08-06 16:35 ` Jan Kratochvil
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