I think it makes sense to what the major distros have. Ubuntu 16.04 was at 7.9 I believe. Maybe that's the earliest we need to test?
I'm certainly seeing huge differences between it and 7.12 that's in 18.04. So I would definitely include it.
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Hi,
I think it makes sense to trim the number of supported versions more regularly. GDB 7.5 sounds more than adequate but beyond that, I don’t know that kind of policy would make sense (3-4 years support?). I would be also good to prune the service
class hierarchies for the versions that are not supported anymore, but maybe that would be too painful API-wise.
Marc-André
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Hi folks,
I believe at some point in the past a decision was made on what is the
oldest version of GDB we officially support. However I can't find the
documentation/email about this. The closest I came is Marc K's update
to the tests[1].
GDB 7.5 is about 6 years old and I would like to propose that GDB 7.5
is the oldest version we officially support (aka actually test)
starting in Photon.
The reality is that we have only been running automated tests on only
GDB >= 7.5 for a while now. So I would like to get agreement and make
official what is happening in practice, or if people need support for
older GDBs to let us know so we can start testing them again.
I am working on cleaning up the debug test jobs on Jenkins[2] to get
them all back to Green dots.
Any thoughts?
Jonah
[1] https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/68906/
[2] https://ci.eclipse.org/cdt/view/Debug/
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