Propose we release GDB 9.1 next weekend (Feb 01-02)

Joel Brobecker
2020-01-26T11:40:40Z

Hello everyone,

As far as I can tell, we still have a couple of issues open, with
unfortunately no progress that I can tell for the past week or so.
At this point, the GDB 9.1 release has really been a long time coming,
we really should try to get it out the door soon. Here are the
remaining known issue, with my comments on how I propose we proceed:

- [IanB/PedroA] output out of order / issue with filtered/unfiltered output order
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-11/msg00859.html

Affects cgdb via annotations:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25190

These are the patches that have been proposed:
(a) https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-11/msg01120.html
(b) https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-11/msg01121.html

As far as I can tell: For (a), the patch doesn't look unreasonable
and is pretty simple. Andrew sent some comments, but we didn't get
an updated version.

For (b), Simon mentioned that he was trying to apply it, and was
then able to. But I haven't seen any comments on it. So I took
a look, and sent my first impressions on the patch:
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2020-01/msg00842.html

=> At this point, I am not confident that we are going to
be able to solve that issue right away. Since there is
an easy work around for this issue, I propose we consider
this issue as *not* blocking for 9.1.

- [Eliz/NickA/JoelB] libtcf fails to build on MinGW
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25155

The only issue left to fix is the issue with errno.

=> Still waiting for Nick. Rather than putting more pressure
on Nick, I propose we go with Eli's patch of providing
fallback errno values. When Nick is able to confirm
his final patch, we'll decide whether to backport or
stay with the simpler patch from Eli.

Pending comments, I will work on the GDB 9.1 release during
the weekend of Feb 01-02.

Thank you!
--
Joel