Re: Preparing for the GDB 5.0 / GDB 2000 / GDB2k release

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 10:48:37PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
> Yes we should try to act on bug-reports and look at the fixes we get
> from people.  However, we should keep an eye on the long-term
> maintainability of GDB.  Adding new hooks like Sam's patch does, is
> not improving maitainability and contrary to the current direction
> that GDB development is heading for: supporting multiple architectures
> in one GDB binary.  The patch is very useful though for establishing
> what exactly is wrong, and how to fix this properly, which is what I
> intend to do.  It is possible that this doesn't happen before GDB 5.0
> however.

But my past experences tell me that it usually means more tha 6 months,
a year or even never. That is why I suggested we set a deadline fo
cases like this.


H.J.