From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4880 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2012 06:28:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 4870 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2012 06:28:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_NIX_SPAM,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il (HELO mtaout21.012.net.il) (80.179.55.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:27:48 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M1O00400PVEQJ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:26:46 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.231.234]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M1O004JHPWLP920@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:26:46 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:28:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [patch#2 3/6] set auto-load local-gdbinit warn-and-* In-reply-to: To: Doug Evans Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83obre1u56.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20120329091258.GD25449@host2.jankratochvil.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg01035.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:57:50 -0700 > From: Doug Evans > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > Deprecating .gdbinit files requires a NEWS entry. > [But maybe that's in a later patch.] > > And are we *really* sure we want to deprecate them? Looks like we are. FWIW, I would suggest polling at least some of the projects that provide .gdbinit as part of their distribution. Even if there's only one such project (Emacs), its developers should be polled, IMO, before making this move.