From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 97175 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2015 18:42:22 -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 97121 invoked by uid 89); 23 Mar 2015 18:42:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mtaout21.012.net.il Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il (HELO mtaout21.012.net.il) (80.179.55.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:42:20 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NLO00B00GTB4U00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:42:16 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NLO00BGFHAG1X80@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:42:16 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:42:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections In-reply-to: <5510553F.1040203@redhat.com> To: Pedro Alves Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ktietz@redhat.com, brobecker@adacore.com, fercerpav@gmail.com Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83k2y7r1xg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1391878435-19340-1-git-send-email-fercerpav@gmail.com> <20140209083056.GA32481@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20140209095308.GH2320@home.lan> <20140209130501.GA15183@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83k3d4utwr.fsf@gnu.org> <20140209164748.GA25629@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20140209170821.GI2320@home.lan> <20150322163922.GA31444@host1.jankratochvil.net> <83sicxrn1b.fsf@gnu.org> <20150322170932.GA32091@host1.jankratochvil.net> <83iodssz5g.fsf@gnu.org> <5510553F.1040203@redhat.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00733.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:02:39 +0000 > From: Pedro Alves > CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ktietz@redhat.com, brobecker@adacore.com, > fercerpav@gmail.com > > >> What older MS-Windows release > >> should be supported? I guess MS-Windows 2000? Do you mean it seriously? > > > > It's up to us to decide. Emacs, for example, still supports Windows > > 98, per an explicit request from RMS, based on the large number of > > users of those systems in the 3rd World. > > Hmm, I couldn't find any statistic/report online that confirms this. > All I found puts worldwide Windows 9x usage <= 0.01%. Yes, and now multiply that by the size of the population in, say, India, and see what you get. > I don't think we should keep trying to remain compatible with > such old versions. As I said, it's up to us. > I'd actually be very surprised if indeed we still are, given > nobody's been really testing it. It could very well be broken on these platforms, yes. > I think that people that still need to _develop_ for Windows 9x can > simply use an older GDB. What about developing on latest versions of Windows, but debugging on Windows 9X? There could be 9X-specific problems that might require that. (I had such an experience with Emacs about 3 years ago, and the person who helped me debug the problem was using GDB 7.2 on a Windows 98 box.)