From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit] Mention VAX floating-point support in NEWS
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhdav8yax.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511012122.jA1LMhkG032239@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (message from Mark Kettenis on Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:22:43 +0100 (CET))
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:22:43 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> Sorry Eli. I didn't want to offend you.
I didn't take any offence. Sorry if it sounded like I did.
> But I thought I could just add some blurb to NEWS for new features
> that went in. Unless of course there would be some controversy over
> whether it really is a new feature or about the wording. But I
> didn't think that was the case for the VAX floating point support.
I think we should carefully consider what goes into NEWS and how it is
worded. NEWS is user-level documentation and should be treated as
such, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-02 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-01 7:31 Mark Kettenis
2005-11-01 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-01 20:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-02 4:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-01 21:22 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-11-02 4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-11-01 23:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2005-11-02 5:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-02 5:55 ` Joel Brobecker
2005-11-02 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-02 23:00 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-02 23:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-03 1:34 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-03 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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