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Re: [5.1/rfc] Obsolete MPW host
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [5.1/rfc] Obsolete MPW host
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:01:39 +0300 (IDT)
- cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Did I reply to this?
Not until now, you didn't ;-)
> > So how about adding to the distribution a file that would list, for
> > each platform whose support was discontinued, the last GDB version
> > that was known to build and work on that platform? This would at
> > least allow people to fetch such an old version, build it, use it, and
> > maybe retrofit that support into the current sources using the old
> > version as the base
>
> Hopefully people can figure this out from the NEWS file. Each
> target/system should have an entry recording when it was added and when
> it was deleted (a few don't though).
Then we should IMHO pay more attention to documenting this in NEWS (as
well as keeping NEWS up-to-date with user-visible changes in general ;-).