GDB 5.1, which texinfo version?

GDB 5.1, which texinfo version?

[Andrew Cagney]

Hello,

Part of the song and dance of doing a release is sanity checking that 
the info pages can be re-build using all versions of texinfo.  For 5.0 
that included 3.12f(?1) and 4.0.

I'm going to work on the assumption that 5.1 is the same and then, post 
5.1, GDB can switch to requiring >=4.0.  Sound ok?

	Andrew

(1) The exact version is available as a tar ball available for down load 
from GDB's FTP site.

Re: GDB 5.1, which texinfo version?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Part of the song and dance of doing a release is sanity checking that 
> the info pages can be re-build using all versions of texinfo.  For 5.0 
> that included 3.12f(?1) and 4.0.
> 
> I'm going to work on the assumption that 5.1 is the same and then, post 
> 5.1, GDB can switch to requiring >=4.0.  Sound ok?

IMHO, we could assume 4.0 even for GDB 5.1.  Texinfo 4.0 was released
a year and a half ago, and there's the v4.0c pretest already on
alpha.gnu.  So it would appear that 3.x is _way_ obsolete by now.

If we decide to assume 4.0 now, it doesn't really require us to take
any action, except stop testing with 3.12f.  We could delay the
cleanup of the ugly hacks we put into the Texinfo sources until 5.2.

Re: GDB 5.1, which texinfo version?

[Andrew Cagney]

> If we decide to assume 4.0 now, it doesn't really require us to take
> any action, except stop testing with 3.12f.  We could delay the
> cleanup of the ugly hacks we put into the Texinfo sources until 5.2.


Ok,  I'll generate the release using 4.0 and won't tell you what I do 
with 3.12f.

	Andrew