From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 413 invoked by alias); 12 May 2006 21:55:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 405 invoked by uid 22791); 12 May 2006 21:55:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 May 2006 21:55:55 +0000 Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p202-124-112-223.snap.net.nz [202.124.112.223]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C6C753EA5; Sat, 13 May 2006 09:55:54 +1200 (NZST) Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id D886E627ED; Fri, 12 May 2006 22:52:47 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17509.943.40875.198555@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 22:14:00 -0000 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: ghost@cs.msu.su, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch In-Reply-To: References: <17509.54397.736467.479414@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.51 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00267.txt.bz2 > > Putting these things in the manual just makes it harder to change GDB. > > I would rather say: "Its there. Use it at your own risk". Or at least: > > > > > > For the developers convenience CLI commands can be entered directly. > > However this feature may be removed at some stage in the future and > > it is recommended that front ends use the @code{-interpreter exec} command. > > @xref{GDB/MI Miscellaneous Commands}. > > Do we indeed intend to remove this feature any time soon? If so, I > agree that we should add a warning about that. I don't know about any time soon buts it's clearly irregular and I guess could interfere with the design of MI. Also it doesn't have to stay as -interpreter exec provides an alternative. > But, other than that, > why do you say that describing the CLI support in mi in more detail > will make it harder to change GDB? Because if people write a front end that relies on a feature then understanably they are upset when it is changed or removed, just as I was when it appeared that annotations would be removed. The one advantage of Emacs long release cycle is that it gives you more time to get everything right before its released. GDB goes out about every six months along with an expectation that its behaviour will some level of maintenance. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob