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

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 29.08.10 13:51:23, Niko Sams wrote:
> 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.

Well, Debian is just one distro and there's going to be 4.2 released
even before their next planned stable release and that one will depend
on 7.1 7.1 was released roughly 6 months ago. Don't really know, anybody
knows whats up with other major distro's, are they shipping a new
release in the next 2-4 months that would carry gdb 7.1?

Andreas

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