From: <Paul_Koning@Dell.com>
To: <dje@google.com>
Cc: <khooyp@cs.umd.edu>, <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: RE: Make the "python" command resemble the standard Python interpreter
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09787EF419216C41A903FD14EE5506DD030F1EB49D@AUSX7MCPC103.AMER.DELL.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22SshqO006eMdmUXV80t0MeaTMST5XhQ7s4CiM4RJfXsYw@mail.gmail.com>
>...
>> - I may want a script that invokes python interactively.
>> - How do I write a gdb macro that invokes the python repl?
>>
>> Solve those problems, and provide a migration path away from the old
>> behaviour, and then you've got something.
>
>As a strawman, a new command, python-foo, could be provided [python-code? python-script?] that had the "old" behaviour.
Nice solution.
>As for migration, we *could* add python-foo as an alias for python to
>7.4 (seems safe enough) and say the "python" command will change it's behaviour in 7.5 (or some such).
>Or we could just skip the first step and just say python will change incompatibly in 7.5.
>[I don't have a preference, but I think we need to start doing this kind of thing, and this would be good practice. :-)]
I'd say one step not two, given that the population of users of the scenario you mentioned is likely to be tiny.
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-12 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 0:31 Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-11 4:06 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-11 10:43 ` Kevin Pouget
2012-01-11 10:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-11 16:04 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-11 17:48 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-11 18:48 ` Kevin Pouget
2012-01-11 19:04 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-11 19:11 ` Kevin Pouget
2012-01-11 21:06 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-11 21:33 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-11 22:22 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-20 21:25 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-20 21:31 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-22 16:42 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-11 20:56 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-11 21:30 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-11 21:41 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-12 3:07 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-13 14:09 ` Phil Muldoon
2012-01-13 21:39 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-12 16:48 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-12 16:52 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-12 16:55 ` Paul_Koning
2012-01-12 17:24 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-12 17:30 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-12 17:38 ` Paul_Koning
2012-01-12 17:46 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-12 17:48 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-12 17:51 ` Paul_Koning [this message]
2012-01-12 18:06 ` Doug Evans
[not found] ` <CADPb22T1ZmfiGeF9g-QZN6pCTBHwT5ByD9ddX_Dhxe4URvTAhw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-12 18:21 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-12 18:36 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-12 18:48 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-12 21:22 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-12 18:30 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-21 1:56 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-22 16:57 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-23 22:17 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-24 17:36 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-26 18:28 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-30 6:50 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-01-30 17:25 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-30 19:57 ` Doug Evans
2012-02-06 20:08 ` Doug Evans
2012-02-06 20:13 ` Paul_Koning
2012-02-06 20:30 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-02-06 20:34 ` Doug Evans
2012-02-06 20:59 ` Paul_Koning
2012-02-06 21:54 ` Tom Tromey
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