From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7445 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2012 06:33:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 7434 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2012 06:33:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vb0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-vb0-f41.google.com) (209.85.212.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:33:30 +0000 Received: by vbbey12 with SMTP id ey12so238292vbb.0 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:33:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:x-system-of-record:x-gm-message-state:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=gW56fROSmVgH9YMacmI4c3tHGGxMw6tHw9CAl4yTrAU=; b=T5iIZAhxjB5mu6pePPXr/gkih9ErA7aPTQIxUy+j5qhRAgZP8xarEKqCWXttpVKmuv E3jrDRjbCBgkucHbfThycSzj1EjCXlXcfsnr9XoW3s60OttMUiB+eTdWj9LWasxvfXik VW59KlSH8Wt4WKJoOmY5F6FGdzwxT8Q9CyOFg+62XWpAYgBoLEfWmxYZi8m24sh6NQNc LuUdOhNsYjXaqCYvecad65ynRzcA9rEmelGlSRJflMg4pQ0jsUpBO+WK4+F9Fkff1J+g SqnyhUsXNJ9Obi8DHJbgxnFB80tedSsUY6fU9L9R3kS9QFH65SwNZz+n/4HGt4n0Xj0M 5ZAA== Received: by 10.220.147.198 with SMTP id m6mr498599vcv.49.1333089209816; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:33:29 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.147.198 with SMTP id m6mr498592vcv.49.1333089209596; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.73.14 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:33:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83obre1u56.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20120329091258.GD25449@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83obre1u56.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:33:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch#2 3/6] set auto-load local-gdbinit warn-and-* From: Doug Evans To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org X-System-Of-Record: true X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmm2nQHgiVm67IPJtKBFJM1JmPfW4To+u2gPme2P5n43WmQpYu8mZSWxYFEkJ/aAUW4eE9fGxmiHJQP1ZSNqId7i8YqOKGaFYAw8qg1b1GhH6RqwrYD3xO/3AbJ8Yj+bTodJOmJPXjGT9DfKyKAmhW+o8i2ww== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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/msg01036.txt.bz2 On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> 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. =A0FWIW, I would suggest polling at least some of the > projects that provide .gdbinit as part of their distribution. =A0Even if > there's only one such project (Emacs), its developers should be > polled, IMO, before making this move. I'd reword that to say that before we hear from some significant representative users we should not be sure we're ready.