Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi at cox dot net>]

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:03:43AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:16:40 -0400
> > From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > 
> > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:27:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:21:35 -0400
> > > > From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
> > > > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sure if it helps to think of things in terms of releases in
> > > > regards to GDB/MI. Unfortunatly, many distros package a CVS release of
> > > > GDB. So, any given snapshot of GDB could have this feature or not.
> > > 
> > > People who use GDB snapshots are on their own when some feature
> > > evolves during development.  So I'm not bothered by this.
> > 
> > Please please don't say this. It's just not a practical statement to
> > make. Many of the distrobutions use CVS snapshots.
> 
> I'm sorry, but it's impractical for us to cater to users of all the
> snapshots out there.  There simply isn't any practical way to have in
> the manual a detailed description of the MI evolution during
> development.  People who bump into problems with snapshots will have
> to ask for help on the GDB mailing list, if they cannot firgure it out
> themselves.

OK, maybe we agree then. You agree that the FE's should be allowed to
work with CVS snapshots, however, FE developers will not get the benefit
of a nice manual for those snapshots. Correct?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi