Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:04:09PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > >This is certainly the right direction. We have discussed this in very
> > >general terms (I believe at the gcc conference), but I don't remember
> > >a discussion on the gdb lists. Since this seems quite a big rewrite (I
> > >am not sure, I just saw all this stuff appearing at once), how about
> > >using the branching approach? It has worked well for a few features now.
>
> > Honestly, yes.  As core maintainers we should be willing to do as we ask.
>
>
> I don't ask for people to use branches, because it's a bloody nuisance. 
> Once all patches have gone onto a branch, reproducing a series of
> logically contained patches that are small enough to be acceptable to
> the GDB Gods is an additional week or month of work.  I prefer when
> possible to do work in increments, on mainline.

I agree, instead prefering a steady sequence of incremental change.

> Having been asked twice to use a branch I'll investigate it.  Not for
> these patches, however, which are designed to be non-behavior-changing
> cleanups.

Thanks for clarifying this.

Andrew