Synchronizing Binutils and GDB releases

[Nicholas Clifton]

Hi Tristan, Hi Joel,

   What do you think to the idea of synchronizing GDB and BINUTILS 
releases ?

   The idea was raised at this year's GNU Tool's Cauldron.  It would 
help users who manage combined toolchain sources.  Currently if they 
want to create a combined tree of specific releases of the gcc, gdb and 
binutils they have to choose which version of the BFD library to use. 
But if they find a bug and want to check in a fix, they have to remember 
that there are actually two versions of the BFD sources to patch. 
Multiply this by a number of different GDB/BINUTILS release 
combintations and this becomes a maintenance headache.


   If we had a combined release there would be only one branch in the 
git repository and things would be a lot simpler.  We could even extend 
this idea by arranging for the release to happen slightly before each 
GCC release.  Then GCC version X could could say that it works best with 
GDB/BINUTILS version Y.

Cheers
   Nick