Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

David Carlton writes:
 > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:07:26 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
 > 
 > > I don't ask for people to use branches, because it's a bloody
 > > nuisance.  Once all patches have gone onto a branch, reproducing a
 > > series of logically contained patches that are small enough to be
 > > acceptable to the GDB Gods is an additional week or month of work.
 > > I prefer when possible to do work in increments, on mainline.
 > 
 > I don't see any reason for a branch here.  The extra work is a pain,
 > and the patches have already started generating a nice amount of
 > productive discussion, more (I suspect) than they would have gotten if
 > they were on a branch.  Incremental development on mainline is good;
 > branching might be appropriate if you're trying to chose between two
 > choices and undoing the wrong choice would be a fair amount of work,
 > or if you can't figure out how to do something incrementally, but I
 > don't think that's the situation with these patches.
 > 
 > David Carlton
 > carlton@kealia.com


FWIW
Some background on this seems to be in these threads:

(more detailed here)
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2003-03/msg00349.html

(vaguely here)
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-03/msg00482.html

I thought there was some other discussion but I cannot find it.

elena