From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28820 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2008 13:53:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 28812 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jun 2008 13:53:14 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:52:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3ADB1EF1BF; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Ht5CabZTvJfb; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41291EF199; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC336E7ACD; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:52:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:53:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Nick Roberts Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB Focus Group at the 2008 GCC Summit Message-ID: <20080622135252.GF4150@adacore.com> References: <20080619190942.GA3744@adacore.com> <18526.15596.855756.886158@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18526.15596.855756.886158@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00211.txt.bz2 > > | For people really interested in trying it out before the official > > | release, perhaps either: > > | - Announce various nightly tarballs that contain the features > > | - Or perhaps create a 6.9 branch but never release 6.9. Just > > | make various pre-releases 6.8.90, 6.8.91, etc. > > If you are talking about branching now, I think that will mean that most > development will happen on the branch, i.e., there's not much point in > branching. You might as well make bugfix releases, or what GDB calls respins, > 6.8.1, 6.8.2 etc from the 6.8 branch. The branch would of course be created when the features are checked in HEAD, not before. -- Joel