Re: [BUG:MI] -break-list doesn't list multiple breakpoints

Vladimir Prus
2008-01-15T17:08:57Z

Nick Roberts wrote:

> > > I'm not sure of the logic of committing an incomplete patch, but in
> > > any case I think this needs to be fixed before the next release.
> >
> > I disagree. If someone needs this functionality in MI, they are
> > invited to contribute it. Unless I'm completely mistaken, what
> > happened previously in MI was even worse.
>
> Multiple breakpoints are new, so nothing happened in MI previously did it?
> The format of CLI output for pending breakpoints has currently changed and
> in that context Vladimir said:
>
> ...And probably the only way to change the situation is to decide that
> MI is the future, and actively discourage use of CLI for anything, to
> the degree of immediately refusing any request mentioning CLI in
> relation to any frontend.
>
> Refusing requests mentioning CLI and not providing functionality in MI
> seems to leave the frontend developer between a rock and a hard place.

As a meta-comment, I'd like to point out that I'm a frontend developer,
and I'm in no better position than you in anyway.

Now, what do you want -- making sure that all new functionality is available
via MI, or that it's available via CLI? Of course "both CLI and MI" is
a possible answer, but it increases the amount of work and the time till
completion.

- Volodya