Re: [patch/rfc] Add meaningful section titles to PROBLEMS

[David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:16:35 -0500, Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> said:

> This patch gets rid of the meaningless(1) "Regressions since X.X"
> titles replacing them with functional section titles:

> *** C++ support

> *** Stack backtraces

> *** Misc

> (I think that's all)  The file is re-ordered but none of the contents
> change.

> comments?

As we've discussed earlier, some of what are currently listed as
regressions since 6.0 should be edited to be more clear.

That aside, I don't like the current design.  The earlier design had a
list of (sometimes fairly trivial) regressions since 6.0, coupled with
a much more serious outstanding problem; these two shouldn't be mixed.
If we decide that we don't want regressions since 6.0 to be in a
separate section, then we should apply the same criteria to everything
listed under the header "C++ support" (or whatever), and decide to
either only list serious bugs or else list every problem that we know
about.

Personally, the old division makes more sense to me: a list of all
regressions, plus some more serious outstanding issues.  Obviously the
header "Regressions since 5.3" should be changed, however.

David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com