Re: time to create the GDB 8.1.x branch?

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 11/20/2017 07:15 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think it is time to start thinking about the next release (8.1),
> as it has been 5.5 months since we release 8.0, and 7 months
> since we created the 8.0.x branch!

W00t, already! :-P

> 
> I've created the following wiki page for keeping track of this release
> cycle:
> 
>     https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_8.1_Release
> 
> Looking at the gdb/NEWS file, it shows a fair number of enhancements.
> Also, outside of one GDB PR that was marked for 8.1 but is no longer
> critical IMO, we have no PR active targetting 8.1.
> 
> Are there any changes that would be worth waiting for before we branch
> 8.1? If not, I plan on creating the branch next Monday (Nov 27th).

I'd like to get the rest of the C++ breakpoint improvements series in.

A good part of it is in, which already fixed many user-visible things,
but the NEWS change hasn't yet:
  https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-06/msg00594.html

The remaining part is the support for wild matching (ignore
leading classes/namespaces) for C++, and support for breakpoints on
symbols with ABI tags.
Keith reviewed the whole series but I haven't gotten around to
addressing his comments on that part of the series yes (since
only recently that lookup_name_info patch got in).  I'll try
to do that ASAP.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves