Re: [Commit] New file

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@gnu.org>]

 > > New elisp file which provides a graphical user interface to GDB for Emacs.
 > 
 > IMHO, it shouldn't have been committed without discussion (either
 > RFA/RFC here or even a general discussion on gdb@sources.redhat.com)..

I'm sorry, this was my mistake. I misunderstood what Andrew had said.

 > I personally don't like the idea of having an Emacs file in the GDB
 > distribution.  We had such a file in the past, and the result was that
 > it could never be in sync with the Emacs code base.

Perhaps circumstances are different this time. gdb-mi.el will synchronise
with GDB (it needs at least GDB 6.1 currently) and work with Emacs 21.4
gdb-ui.el will synchronise with Emacs and work with many versions of GDB.
There are many other benefits as Andrew has already outlined, not least
the migration of Emacs from annotations to GDB/MI.

 >                                            I'm unwilling to
 > go through that experience once again.

Many GDB developers will not be interested in this file. Thats fine, it won't
break GDB and theres only a very small data overhead. Some may take an
interest and help its development which is the reason for its
inclusion. However, I fail to see how it can be a negative experience for
anyone.

Nick