[KDevelop] 6fa7873: Increase gdb version check to >= 7.1.0

[Niko Sams]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:47, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 28.08.10 18:41:50, Niko Sams wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 18:23, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > On 28.08.10 10:57:09, Niko Sams wrote:
>> >> commit 6fa7873977bc7b74927518902c9d43f383497bf7
>> >> Author: Niko Sams <niko.sams at gmail.com>
>> >> Date:   Sat Aug 28 09:58:51 2010 +0200
>> >>
>> >>     Increase gdb version check to >= 7.1.0
>> >>
>> >>     since last changes (-list-variables) depend on gdb 7.1
>> >
>> > Can you please notify the list before doing such changes, at least a
>> > week in advance?
>> >
>> > Its not nice having to find out that I need to rebuild my gdb at the
>> > point where I want to start debugging.
>> >
>> Sorry - will do the next time.
>>
>> Anyone objects the (runtime) requirement in 4.1?
>
> I don't want to object, but I'd like to note that Debian testing (and
> hence the next stable release) will only ship 7.0.1. Can you explain
> what the new command gains us that wasn't possible before?
>
Two MI commands (-var-list-locals and -var-list-arguments) are replaced with
a single one (-var-list-variables). This makes things easier as the second call
isn't needed anymore - and the problematic thing about it was that it
was executed
after the other update stuff.
It was originally introduced for the mark-changed-values feature but I
guess it could
be reverted without any loss of features - some workaround might be
needed though.

If you think it's better to revert that I'll add the gdb 7.1
dependency after 4.1 branched.

Niko