Re: [PATCH] Hooks still needed for annotations

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

Bob Rossi writes:
 > > I don't much think a parser is GDB's responsibility.  Offering one as a
 > > convenience, sure, maybe.  Note that a lot of frontends won't get to
 > > use it anyway!  If we ship it with GDB, then it's going to be covered
 > > under the GPL.
 > 
 > The more I think of it, the more I feel that I am correct on this. Even
 > if the parser was under the GPL, proprietary projects (Apple?) could
 > simply use the parse tree to translate the data into a nice format of
 > there own (XML?) and then communicate that to a parser thats linked into
 > there application. This type of solution would allow a closed source
 > company to get the benefits of an MI parser/semantical analyzer,
 > contribute to the project, and not have to think 1 second about low
 > level MI stuff in there FE.

Bob,

You're quoting Daniel (I think), not me.  I must say though, that I don't see
an immediate need for a parser.  We can dictate the MI output.  Why not just
get that to play nice?

Nick