From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22071 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2003 06:04:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22044 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2003 06:04:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2003 06:04:48 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9264lvd021452 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:04:18 -0700 Received: from apple.com (vpn-scv-x1-8.apple.com [17.219.193.8]) by scv2.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9264ZWI017492; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F7BC005.9050707@apple.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 06:04:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney CC: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Features vs infrastructure (was Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ?) References: <3F717475.33E13BC4@india.hp.com> <6654-Wed24Sep2003201904+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F72FF8C.3080104@redhat.com> <6654-Sat27Sep2003132618+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75A491.4010203@redhat.com> <1659-Sat27Sep2003204134+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75D8D3.2090207@redhat.com> <2427-Sun28Sep2003102631+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F76EC92.6010005@redhat.com> <4098-Sun28Sep2003234119+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F775F6C.8070209@redhat.com> <3F784618.50203@redhat.com> <3F7B4BEC.1060800@apple.com> <3F7B9B85.50201@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <3F7B9B85.50201@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00050.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney wrote: >> I just thumbed through the GDB website and sources, and gdb/TODO seemed >> like it was mostly a list of desired infrastructure changes. For >> instance, >> I didn't see a mention of the desirability of tracepoint support for >> native >> debugging, although that is an obvious item for a wishlist. Perhaps the >> todo list should be separated into "user-visible" and "infrastructure" >> sections, with appropriate xrefs, so that everybody is aware of what's >> desired. > > > GDB tracks new features using the bug database. I see one tracepoint > change which is me pointing out that an architecture method is broken. > Must remember to delete the TODO file. OK, I see plenty there, but most look like infrastructure changes, and of the 139 items, I still can't tell which are the most important features that users have been waiting for. That's where a real document comes in handy; you can use it to explain why features A, B, and C are more important than D, E, and F, or why feature G must wait for infrastructure changes H, I, and J. Stan