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Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:58:02AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:53:28PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > In general, if some external package needs to support multiple GDB
> > versions, their authors will need to look in the manuals of those
> > older versions.
>
> Is there somewhere appropriate to record this sort of change, in
> more detail than would fit in NEWS, if you think that the manual is not
> the place for it? This sort of information is incredibly useful when
> e.g. upgrading; there's no easy way for users to "diff" the manual.
I propose putting in the manual all of the changes since the last
version of MI, in a new section. So this way, users can easily
understand what changed. If they are upgrading from an older version,
they can look at that manual.