Re: GDB/MI snapshots between major release's

Bob Rossi
2004-10-03T18:36:20Z

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.

Bob Rossi