From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4890 invoked by alias); 1 Jun 2004 20:09:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4869 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2004 20:09:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nick.uklinux.net) (194.247.51.254) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Jun 2004 20:09:48 -0000 Received: by nick.uklinux.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 41E1575FDE; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:08:09 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16572.57896.656817.426622@nick.uklinux.net> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:09:00 -0000 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Commit] New file In-Reply-To: <7137-Tue01Jun2004064914+0300-eliz@gnu.org> References: <16563.42891.155614.609433@nick.uklinux.net> <6654-Wed26May2004124733+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <40B4C9A9.3040904@gnu.org> <6137-Thu27May2004102142+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <40B63FED.7080502@gnu.org> <6654-Fri28May2004105116+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <16567.38968.219077.271649@nick.uklinux.net> <40BB827F.5080906@gnu.org> <7137-Tue01Jun2004064914+0300-eliz@gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 > > Since this is largely an EMACS issue, can yourself, RMS, and Nick try to > > resolve this and come back with a recommendation? > > I have no problems talking with Richard first, but it seems to me that > the issue is whether to have gdb-mi.el in GDB, which is something we, > as GDB maintainers, could decide on our own. I think Andrew is (wisely) declining to pick up the gauntlet that you threw down in an earlier e-mail. You've certainly made your opinion clear but you don't seem to be offering an alternative. You talk of bit-rot but this could equally apply to GDB/MI if front-ends don't adopt this interface. I see new MI commands that Emacs needs and I would like to discuss their implementation within the context of gdb-mi.el. Up till now the entry level to try out gdb-mi.el was to check out CVS versions of both GDB and Emacs and download the file from my homepage. Rather unsurprisingly, I've had no feedback. After the next release of GDB and Emacs, typing M-x gdbmi would be enough. Its about lowering the entry threshold. I do this work for fun and because I think it has social value. It ceases to be fun if there are disagreements. If GDB maintainers want to remove this file then I certainly won't contest it. I will, however, look for a more profitable way to spend my time. Nick