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Re: [RFA/doco] Document the GDB python directory.
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:57:14 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > Yes, but please add to the NEWS entry a pointer to the section in the
> > manual where the details are.
>
> Thanks. Would the following be the correct way of adding that reference
> in the NEWS file?
> [...]
> +** GDB now provides a new directory location, called the python directory,
> + where Python scripts written for GDB can be installed. The location
> + of that directory is <data-directory>/python, where <data-directory>
> + is the GDB data directory. For more details, see the `Debugging with
> + GDB' manual, section `Scripting GDB using Python'.
It would be enough to say
For more details, see section `Scripting GDB using Python' in the
manual.
Thanks.