From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11485 invoked by alias); 21 Aug 2013 15:38:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 11461 invoked by uid 89); 21 Aug 2013 15:38:29 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients Received: from multi.imgtec.com (HELO multi.imgtec.com) (194.200.65.239) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:38:28 +0000 Message-ID: <1377099478.5770.76.camel@ubuntu-sellcey> Subject: Re: A Proposal to Move to Git From: Steve Ellcey To: Tom Tromey CC: GDB Development , Binutils Development Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:38:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <8738q4gj7a.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <8738q4gj7a.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SEF-Processed: 7_3_0_01192__2013_08_21_16_38_02 X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00088.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 15:12 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > I'd like to do the final switch around mid-September. Not sooner, > because I am going to be away for a little while near the end of > August, and I want to be available to fix problems. > > Tom There was a comment on the gdb list about releasing GDB 7.7 before the transition, I wonder if it would make sense to release a Binutils 2.24 as well? In general, I am in favor of the transition and I don't think doing (or not doing) a binutils 2.24 release should be a blocker for the move to git, but I wouldn't mind seeing a new release before the transition. Steve Ellcey sellcey@mips.com