KDevelop4 and gdb version

Vladimir Prus ghost at cs.msu.su
Wed Jan 24 10:42:52 UTC 2007


Sometime soon, I plan to start working on debugger support in KDevelop4. 

I plan to require, until the first public KDevelop 4 release, that CVS version of gdb
is used. The reason is that making KDevelop have alternative code paths
for each feature that gdb adds in CVS is going to be major pain.

I indend to add "feature list" feature to gdb, so that KDevelop can check for 
features it needs and reliably inform the user that his gdb version is too old.
At the same time, I'll use all new features I can, and running KDevelop4 with
last released version of gdb is likely to be either very inconvenient or 
downright impossible.

I hope that the time till the next gdb release (~ 4 month) and the time till
KDevelop 4 release is sufficient to add everything I need. If anybody has some
concerns or suggestions about this, speak out!

- Volodya




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