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Re: [RFA] Remove some text from --version output
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:38:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Remove some text from --version output
- References: <20180511194008.16382-1-tom@tromey.com> <9ad3f1be-2532-b57f-3423-6a7bd7e8dafe@redhat.com> <87in6yl2qk.fsf@tromey.com>
On 06/04/2018 09:24 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> This patch removes some text from --version, while leaving it in the
> "show version" output. It also adds a newline between the URLs and
> the "For help, ..." text, because I thought that was easier to read.
> Finally, it indents one of the URLs, since that was simpler to read,
> but not the other URL, because the current format is specified by the
> GNU coding standards section on "--version".
>
> Now the --version output looks like:
>
> GNU gdb (GDB) 8.1.50.20180511-git
> Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
IIUC, you changed the "show version" output too, in which case it would be
nice to include the new output for that here too. I didn't try it locally,
but I trust that it's fine. Thus, OK with me.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves