Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:16:40 -0400
> From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:27:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:21:35 -0400
> > > From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
> > > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure if it helps to think of things in terms of releases in
> > > regards to GDB/MI. Unfortunatly, many distros package a CVS release of
> > > GDB. So, any given snapshot of GDB could have this feature or not.
> > 
> > People who use GDB snapshots are on their own when some feature
> > evolves during development.  So I'm not bothered by this.
> 
> Please please don't say this. It's just not a practical statement to
> make. Many of the distrobutions use CVS snapshots.

I'm sorry, but it's impractical for us to cater to users of all the
snapshots out there.  There simply isn't any practical way to have in
the manual a detailed description of the MI evolution during
development.  People who bump into problems with snapshots will have
to ask for help on the GDB mailing list, if they cannot firgure it out
themselves.