Re: Time for a new release?

[Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:37:47PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>It's been almost 4 months since the last release (6.4). I was
>unfortunately too busy lately to follow closely the GDB development.
>I looked at the NEWS file, and see a few interesting thing there.
>New commands, improved windows host support, etc.
>
>Perhaps it is time to think about a new release? I'm thinking about
>the following timeline:
>
>        Branch: Apr 3rd
>        Pre-release: Apr 5th
>        Release: Apr 19th
>
>Basically, a first pre-release a couple of days after branching.
>And then the first release if all goes well two weeks after, to
>give us some time to flush any issue we might find.
>
>Also, do we want to distribute GDB with -Werror enabled? It's fair
>to have us build GDB with -Werror, but I would feel more comfortable
>distributing something that's easier to compiler for the end user.
>I think this will avoid some traffic from users who don't know what
>to do with the fatal warnings.
>
>Thoughts?

Isn't this kind of email better suited for the gdb mailing list rather
than the gdb-patches mailing list?

FWIW, I am tracking down, in slow motion, a problem with the latest gdb
under cygwin where gdb SEGVs when stepping over some cygwin DLL
functions.

I don't think that's any reason to hold up a release unless this turns
out to be a generic problem.

cgf