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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.


  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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