Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-12T13:58:06Z

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:53:28PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> In general, if some external package needs to support multiple GDB
> versions, their authors will need to look in the manuals of those
> older versions.

Is there somewhere appropriate to record this sort of change, in
more detail than would fit in NEWS, if you think that the manual is not
the place for it? This sort of information is incredibly useful when
e.g. upgrading; there's no easy way for users to "diff" the manual.

> This reminds me: perhaps we should mention major incompatible changes
> in NEWS, suitably marked to the effect that they break backward
> compatibility.

Yes, certainly.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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