Discussion: Formalizing the deprecation process in GDB

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com>
> Cc: "'Andrew Cagney'" <cagney@gnu.org>,
> 	<gdb@sources.redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:42:24 +0100
> 
> I look for the internals docs!  And complain bitterly when I can't
> find them

Please don't hesitate to complain here whenever you find missing or
outdated docs in GDB.  Thanks!

>   Since opinions are being invited, I'll just mention that I'm currently
> working on an internal version of gdb for which I'm having to up-port a
> 5.x-compatible backend to 6.x series.  I sometimes find it *ever* so hard
> when faced with yet another deprecated__ this or obsoleted_ that to know
> what the new and approved replacement is

Andrew, should we have a section in gdbint.texinfo that lists obsolete
techniques and their modern replacements, with short examples of both
the old and new code, like we did for ui_* stuff?