Re: GDB/MI snapshots between major release's

[Felix Lee <felix dot 1 at canids dot net>]

Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>:
> How should front end developers deal with snapshots of GDB, that are
> taken between major versions of GDB. Several distributions

I think you're overthinking this.  if some version of gdb doesn't
fulfill the compatibility guarantee, then it's a bug in gdb, and
it shouldn't be hard to have the user install a gdb version
without the bug.  at worst, you can supply your own version of
gdb.  few things depend on specific gdb version.  it's not a big
deal to have multiple gdb versions installed.  source code
availability means you don't have to wait for the gdb cabal to
fix it, and the cabal is generally eager to take reasonable
bugfixes, which solves the long-term problem.
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