Re: update on the gdb-7.0 branch/release

Stan Shebs
2009-05-18T15:40:53Z

Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> So what's the current consensus about an approximate dates for the
>> GDB 7.0 branch and release?
>>
>
> I'm not really sure. I definitely have some time in July to create
> the release if we're ready, but we might not be. After that, it'll
> probably have to be in September. It's hard to be more accurate,
> as it's all based on volunteer efforts.
>
July allows time to get in most or all of multiprocess, plus a bunch of
tracepoint work I've been piling up as local patches. We can revisit the
question on 1 July or so, see where things are at. I don't think we want
to go later than September in any case, that makes 1.5 years since 6.8,
which still seems reasonable albeit longish for a major release number.

Although we're volunteers, we also have employers we can push back on -
"if 7.0 doesn't happen by September, it will be the end of the world and
everybody will switch to, uh, Visual Studio". :-)

Stan