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Re: GDB/MI snapshots between major release's
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 01:53:57PM -0700, Felix Lee wrote:
> Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>:
> > T1 GDB 7.0 has MI10 (official)
> > T2 GDB 7.0-CVS has MI11 (unofficial, because of MI incompatible change X1 )
> > T3 GDB 7.0-CVS has MI11 (unofficial, because of MI incompatible change X2 )
> > T4 GDB 7.1 has MI11 (official)
>
> why would that happen? I expect 'create a new MI version' to be
> basically an atomic change. like, someone experiments with MI11
> on a branch, then merges it into the trunk when it's stable and
> tests reasonable cleanly.
>
> if the incompatible change is simple enough to be done in the
> trunk, then updating the version and the testsuite should be part
> of the same commit.
Except that's not how it's done. Someone else explained how the
version numbers work upthread - the latest one may be evolving.
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Daniel Jacobowitz