X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Probllem with New GDB/Eclipse Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:45:05 -0500 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <20060710201322.GB28287@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Doyle Rhynard wrote: [snip] >> "Broken gdb" or broken Eclipse plugin? (remember when eclipse could >> not work with recent cvs versions, you were stuck with cvs 1.10.x?) >> >> Do you know the difference, yes? then complain to the right people. >=20 > The previous version of gdb works properly with Eclipse, including the > newest version. Along comes a new gdb and compatibility fails. Trashing > gdb-20060706 and restoring gdb-20041228 solves the problem. You tell me, > was the old version not working correctly or is the new version broken? Neither. And you don't get the point above... the same happened with cvs, = new version and Eclipse doesn't work, or to be precise the eclipse plugin did n= ot work with the new format of cvs responses. So who is responsible? The people improving their software or the plugins = that depend on details that can change very easily. > When others depend upon what you do, the old maximum for physicians > should apply also: "First, do no harm". My suggestion is to roll back > the default gdb installation to its previous version and classify the > new one as experimental. Yep, similar to what we use when doing support in my company: first backup = what is installed and working, then install the new version, if everything works= fine you are done, otherwise restore the backup... that's what _you_ should do, = not the people making gdb or cvs or whatever. The point here is "the functionality of gdb is well defined, and it has not= hing to do with supporting plugins or other software". --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/