From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Database? Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:26:43 +0200 Message-ID: <85bqo8odv0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <17717.20433.183356.106695@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17718.15996.727727.91417@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161251399 6493 80.91.229.2 (19 Oct 2006 09:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 19 11:49:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaUXA-0002HR-Fl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:49:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaUXA-0007FG-2K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GaUBl-00026U-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:27:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GaUBk-000261-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaUBi-00025M-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:27:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GaUBi-00011e-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:27:42 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GaUBh-0003ij-Um; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:27:42 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 6BFF81C4F93E; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:26:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Frank Schmitt In-Reply-To: (Frank Schmitt's message of "Thu\, 19 Oct 2006 09\:04\:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60915 Archived-At: Frank Schmitt writes: > Nick Roberts writes: > >> > As a point of reference GDB has 1218 open bugs in its >> > database and still gets released roughly on a six monthly >> > cycle. >> > >> > I suspect it means there is insufficient priority to fixing GDB bugs. >> >> It depends how you measure things. They have more people using a >> recent version of GDB and more people fixing bugs. There's a clear >> message: if you want it fixed for the next version then you may >> have to fix it yourself. > > Which results in the fact that gdb is since years completely unusable > for C++ programs relying on templated functions (so basically all C++ > programs which aren't just pimped C). One could argue that C++ was more in need of fixing than GDB... Unfortunately, C++ got standardized before we could standardize GDB. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum