From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23099 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2003 06:22:07 -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 23091 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2003 06:22:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp10.atl.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.246) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2003 06:22:06 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AVm7A-0001Gw-00; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:21:56 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id CD6E94B412; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:22:30 -0500 (EST) To: eliz@elta.co.il Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses Cc: cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <20031215062230.CD6E94B412@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 06:22:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00205.txt.bz2 eli> Since your proposal for deprecating counts minor releases, would it eli> be enough to request a run for every such release? mec> In my opinion, no. eli> Why not? Known regressions still go months before fixing. And I don't mean "months until the elusive bug can be duplicate"; I mean "months after I file a PR with a simple test case and a pointer to the exact patch where gdb broke". Then consider how much worse this would be if I did one run per release instead of several runs per week. eli> Isn't it better to start deprecating only if we know that some code eli> specific to a platform is broken by a certain change to GDB? mec> Again, in my opinion, no. eli> Again, why not? Because nobody knows what change is going to break what platform. And I'm getting tired of this conversation because I don't see any constructive action coming out of it. I'm going to continue my aggressive QA campaign. When I bump into someone, such as I've bumped into David Anglin or you, my attitude is going to be "well, what can you contribute to support the platform?" Michael C