Re: [PATCH] Hooks still needed for annotations

Nick Roberts
2005-07-01T01:18:06Z

Bob Rossi writes:
> > I don't much think a parser is GDB's responsibility. Offering one as a
> > convenience, sure, maybe. Note that a lot of frontends won't get to
> > use it anyway! If we ship it with GDB, then it's going to be covered
> > under the GPL.
>
> The more I think of it, the more I feel that I am correct on this. Even
> if the parser was under the GPL, proprietary projects (Apple?) could
> simply use the parse tree to translate the data into a nice format of
> there own (XML?) and then communicate that to a parser thats linked into
> there application. This type of solution would allow a closed source
> company to get the benefits of an MI parser/semantical analyzer,
> contribute to the project, and not have to think 1 second about low
> level MI stuff in there FE.

Bob,

You're quoting Daniel (I think), not me. I must say though, that I don't see
an immediate need for a parser. We can dictate the MI output. Why not just
get that to play nice?

Nick