From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Is now a good time to branch? Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:31:21 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16411.55385.336256.776949@nick.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075568204 29937 80.91.224.253 (31 Jan 2004 16:56:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:56:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 31 17:56:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmyQ7-0003B0-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:56:35 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmyQ6-0007g8-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:56:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmyPJ-0006VL-8H for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:55:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AmyNj-0005pa-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AmyMx-0005Ym-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:53:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AmyMw-0005Y1-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:53:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.247.48.78] (helo=nick.uklinux.net) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmyA7-0004yw-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:40:05 -0500 Original-Received: by nick.uklinux.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id EE65275FDE; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:31:21 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19594 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19594 > The new gdb/gdba merge brought to my attention the fact that gdba seems not > to like it when the .gdbinit file does funny things like set breakpoints > (as is done in emacs/src/.gdbinit). > It seems that it does not completely confuse gdba in the end, but there's > at least some complaining going on as well as some aesthetically > displeasing side effects. I can't reproduce this consistently, but I think this mode sometimes get confused by the word wrapping that GDB does to its output. In the short term putting "set width 0" at the start of .gdbinit might solve it. In the longer term migrating more of the functionality to GDB/MI will eliminate such problems as there is no wrapping with this (machine) interface. However as I start to do this I am concerned about breaking existing functionality. So... Would it be a good idea to create a branch from HEAD in the near future, say after the image support for Carbon Emacs has been committed, so that new features can be developed more freely? Nick