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Re: [patch#2 3/6] set auto-load local-gdbinit warn-and-*


On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:57:50 -0700
>> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>> Deprecating .gdbinit files requires a NEWS entry.
>> [But maybe that's in a later patch.]
>>
>> And are we *really* sure we want to deprecate them?
>
> Looks like we are. ?FWIW, I would suggest polling at least some of the
> projects that provide .gdbinit as part of their distribution. ?Even if
> there's only one such project (Emacs), its developers should be
> polled, IMO, before making this move.

I'd reword that to say that before we hear from some significant
representative users we should not be sure we're ready.


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