From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31712 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2003 16:02:04 -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 31704 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2003 16:02:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mclean.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.57) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 2003 16:02:03 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AVYgy-0006Bf-00; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:02:00 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id 0FF864B412; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:02:24 -0500 (EST) To: eliz@elta.co.il Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses Cc: cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <20031214160224.0FF864B412@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:02:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00201.txt.bz2 Hi Eli, > However, running the script once a month (on the then-latest snapshot, > I presume) is not something that I can afford, and I don't see anyone > else stepping forward to do that for me. If you can't commit 1-2 hours per month to test djgpp gdb, how are you going to respond to bug reports and patches? What's going to happen when it bit rots and stops building? I think you should reconsider whether you have the resources to be a maintainer for djgpp gdb. > Since your proposal for deprecating counts minor releases, would it > be enough to request a run for every such release? In my opinion, no. > Isn't it better to start deprecating only if we know that some code > specific to a platform is broken by a certain change to GDB? Again, in my opinion, no. The official gdb definition of "supported" is "gdb builds and break main; run" works. Personally, I think that's lame. However, what we have right now is a situation where we aren't even working to that standard. Michael C