From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24782 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2004 14:18:31 -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 24765 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2004 14:18:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 19 Oct 2004 14:18:29 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9JEIOtG026134 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:18:29 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (to-dhcp51.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.151]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i9JEIOr02920; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:18:24 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA847ACEF; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:18:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4175221A.8040006@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:55:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041012) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Trimming the CVS "gdb" module References: <416420FF.2090201@gnu.org> <01c4ad13$Blat.v2.2.2$f1f70c60@zahav.net.il> <416C34EE.1000504@gnu.org> <01c4b0e0$Blat.v2.2.2$c0d0f8a0@zahav.net.il> <200410131535.i9DFZ8Sb020582@juw15.nfra.nl> <01c4b162$Blat.v2.2.2$6fa656a0@zahav.net.il> In-Reply-To: <01c4b162$Blat.v2.2.2$6fa656a0@zahav.net.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00358.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Perhaps that's true, but we don't have to learn from the projects that > have this problem. Let's learn from those which did solve this > successfully. > > In any case, the threads that Andrew pointed to were about replacing a > 100% broken feature with one that works on some systems. Now it > sounds like we are going to decide that the temporary solution is the > one to stay for good. Let's at least record somewhere that there's a > problem here that we hope one day to solve. Can you describe the problem we're expecting to solve? Andrew