make the GDB 7.2 release sooner?

make the GDB 7.2 release sooner?

[Joel Brobecker]

Hello,

Here is a thought that came to me while looking at the schedule for
a possible 7.1.1: 

  - There are only a couple of patches that went into the 7.1 branch
    since the 7.1 release, so I'm not sure whether it's worth making
    that release or not.  I certainly don't mind. We have another month
    before the planned date for that corrective release.

  - There has been a lot of improvements on the Python API side of
    things recently, and I think it'd be nice to release that sooner
    rather than later.

So, my proposal is to move the 7.2 release date up a few months to, say,
end of June.  That should give us ample time to finish up whatever was
in the works (tracepoints? more Python scripts? etc), before we start
the release process.

What triggered this suggestion is python, but we do have lots of other
things that are worth mentioning (in fact, everything in the NEWS files
is worth mentioning), but to summarize:
  - Access to Windows Thread Information Block
  - Symbian OS support
  - D language support
  - New GDBserver features and new remote packets
  - some user-level improvements on various commands; of interest to
    some is a new "save breakpoints" command.

I should also say that this is independent of whether we decide to do
a 7.1.1 release or not.  I'm willing to release both if that makes sense.

Thoughts?
-- 
Joel

Re: make the GDB 7.2 release sooner?

[Phil Muldoon]

On 05/27/2010 01:29 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
 
> What triggered this suggestion is python, but we do have lots of other
> things that are worth mentioning (in fact, everything in the NEWS files
> is worth mentioning), but to summarize:

The final "large" Python API patch was the py-inferior/py-infthread
stuff I submitted earlier this week.  I'd really like to see that in
there and ship the next release of GDB as pretty much the API
equivalent (or as close as possible) to the Archer Python branch. 

There are a few other API patches too, but they are minor and address
random bits of functionality.  So if we can do this, and ship some of the
neat Python scripts in there too, that would be awesome!


Cheers

Phil

Re: make the GDB 7.2 release sooner?

[Joel Brobecker]

> The final "large" Python API patch was the py-inferior/py-infthread
> stuff I submitted earlier this week.  I'd really like to see that in
> there and ship the next release of GDB as pretty much the API
> equivalent (or as close as possible) to the Archer Python branch. 
> 
> There are a few other API patches too, but they are minor and address
> random bits of functionality.  So if we can do this, and ship some of the
> neat Python scripts in there too, that would be awesome!

I would really like that.

-- 
Joel

Re: make the GDB 7.2 release sooner?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> So, my proposal is to move the 7.2 release date up a few months to, say,
Joel> end of June.

Oops, I only replied to this on irc, not in email.

I think this is a good idea.  Thanks for proposing it.

Tom