KDE/kdevelop/languages/cpp/debugger

[Vladimir Prus]

On Saturday 15 December 2007 18:38:49 you wrote:
> 
> On Dec 15, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> > SVN commit 748808 by vprus:
> >
> > Make use of GDB's support for pending breakpoints in MI.
> >
> > With this commit, KDevelop4 starts to need CVS HEAD of gdb.
> 
> Sorry, but we cannot require CVS HEAD of gdb for KDevelop 4. We need
> to at least support the last released version. As I told Hamish, we
> don't know when gdb 6.8 is being released and we don't know when
> KDevelop 4 is being released, so we can't assume that a new GDB will
> come before KDevelop 4.

gdb 6.8 is likely to be release in half-a-year. Do you see it likely
that KDevelop4 will be ready in this timeframe?

> Please find some way to make this available only if somebody is using
> CVS HEAD of gdb, and fail gracefully if they have an older version.

Well, "fail gracefully" can be either:

   - breakpoints don't work at all
   - breakpoints in shared libraries don't work at all

Does either sound good to you?

- Volodya