Re: GDB/MI snapshots between major release's

Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-10-03T18:40:38Z

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:36:18PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:00:30AM -0700, Felix Lee wrote:
> > Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>:
> > > How should front end developers deal with snapshots of GDB, that are
> > > taken between major versions of GDB. Several distributions
> >
> > I think you're overthinking this. if some version of gdb doesn't
> > fulfill the compatibility guarantee, then it's a bug in gdb, and
> > it shouldn't be hard to have the user install a gdb version
> > without the bug. at worst, you can supply your own version of
> > gdb. few things depend on specific gdb version. it's not a big
> > deal to have multiple gdb versions installed. source code
> > availability means you don't have to wait for the gdb cabal to
> > fix it, and the cabal is generally eager to take reasonable
> > bugfixes, which solves the long-term problem.
>
> I would say that I am not overthinking it, I am simply thinking about
> it. I want to make sure that CVS snapshots will support a valid MI
> interface. Major distro's use these snapshots, and I would like to have
> compatibility with them.

So, use the last frozen MI version supported by that snapshot?

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Daniel Jacobowitz