From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7875 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2002 16:42:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7737 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2002 16:42:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc53.attbi.com) (204.127.198.39) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2002 16:42:04 -0000 Received: from ocean.lucon.org ([12.234.143.38]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020418164204.SUGM12144.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@ocean.lucon.org>; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:42:04 +0000 Received: by ocean.lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 13D6C125C2; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:42:00 -0000 From: "H . J . Lu" To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Michael Veksler , Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb 5.2 removes the conditional breakpoints Message-ID: <20020418094202.C20868@lucon.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from eliz@is.elta.co.il on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:08:41PM +0300 X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00310.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:08:41PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Bugs which have relatively safe fixes will be fixed on the branch. Bugs > that don't have safe fixes will have to wait for the next release. New > features (as opposed to bugfixes) will have to wait, period. > > Please be aware of the downside of fixing everything indiscriminately: it > means that GDB 5.2 will never be released, since ``there's always one > more bug''. So what will go into the branch and what won't is a > judgement call, not something that is self-evident. > That is a regression and a very bad one we are talking about. I believe it is perfectly fine to delay a release to fix regressions. Otherwise, people may find the new gdb less useful than the old ones or people may say the new gdb is worse than the old ones. BTW, I agree we shouldn't fix old bugs nor add new features on branch. H.J.