Re: [Commit] New file

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@gnu.org>]

 > The situation I fear is that the latest gdb-mi.el will not work with a
 > recent Emacs release.  We already had that with gdba.el, remember?

Sure, it will be difficult to keep everything in sync but I think that if you
note the similarities between gdb-mi.el to gdba.el it is also important to
note the differences.  Unlike you, I don't have the benefit of first hand
experience but this is what I have inferred. gdba.el was written by Tom Lord
and Jim Kingdon (both then at Cygnus) and was based on a very early version of
gud.el which, in turn, was written by Eric Raymond and modified by others. As
far as I can see, there was no communication between the original two parties,
and those Emacs developers either did not know about level 2 annotations or
chose not to use them. So could gdba.el could be called a fork. That is not
the intention with gdb-mi.el, indeed the reverse is true, it is trying to pull
things together.

Nick