Re: MI handshaking

[Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:50:41PM -0800, Jim Ingham wrote:
> 
> On Jan 4, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Bob Rossi wrote:
> 
> >>
> >>I've been very busy, so sorry about the delay.
> >>
> >>I'll look into what we discussed here and come up with something that
> >>fits all the new needs. Does Jim care about any of this?
> 
> I didn't see this question in the original note.  The answer is we 
> always ship the Developer Tools as a whole package, which includes 
> Xcode & gdb, and just ask for the mi version we know it supports 
> explicitly.  We don't support taking one version of gdb & using it 
> under an older or newer version of Xcode.  I don't see any plans for us 
> to separate the two in the forseeable future.  So while I do care about 
> this in an abstract sort of way, I can't see us using it.
> 
> 
> >
> >Sorry about the delay.
> >
> >I plan on getting at least this patch into GDB. So, to recap, I neede 
> >to add
> >a new mi-command that would output all of the info discovered during 
> >the
> >handshaking phase. Is there anything else that needs to be added?
> >
> 
> Xcode does use the "does this command exist" mi command Jason mentioned 
> in a few places.  This was more for the convenience of the Xcode 
> developers - so they could ask me to implement a command, then sketch 
> out the implementation right away without having to wait for me to 
> implement it.  That is the level of handshaking that we do.

Thanks for the info, that sounds usefull. Is it available?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi