Re: MI handshaking

["Alain Magloire" <alain@qnx.com>]

> 
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:57:33AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:57:30 -0500
> > > From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> > > Cc: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>, Nick Roberts <nick@nick.uklinux.net>,
> > >         gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > > 
> > > > =mi-handshake,versions=[mi1,mi2,mi3],stable=[mi2]
> > > 
> > > Yes, thanks for the correction with ``=''.   But not 
> > > ``versions=[mi1,mi2,mi3]'' that's too much and misleading information.
> > > 
> > > I think the objective here needs to be to provide as much information as 
> > > possible about what version of GDB and MI is running.  Hence the:
> > > 
> > > 	version="mi2"
> > > 
> > > (where hopefully VERSION version is a member of STABLE :-)
> > 
> > We've been through this discussion, and the only suggestion that
> > brought a consensus was to print all the supported MI versions, not
> > just one.  Let's not reopen that discussion again, even if the result
> > looks ``too much and misleading''.  (Why ``misleading'', btw?)
> 
> Yeah, anyways it doesn't really matter for now. GDB only supports one
> version, and I have a feeling it will stay that way for a long time.
> 

sigh ... sorry for being dense (hopefully this will not be a long thread)
but why are you keep on saying: "GDB only supports one version"
for example, I have gdb-6.1.x and I can start
# gdb -i mi1
# gdb -i mi2
# gdb -i mi3

that it is more then one version?