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

Nick Roberts
2008-01-15T21:38:29Z

> > 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.

I don't take comfort in your discomfort!

> 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.

I would like developers to take care in preserving the format of CLI commands
whenever possible. It's easy for global maintainers to make an executive
decision not to support the use of CLI in frontends because they may not
realise how incomplete MI is.