Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch

Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-13T08:09:49Z

> From: PAUL GILLIAM <pgilliam@us.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:03:52 -0700
>
> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 21:55 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > If you feel we should tell how to create a front end and/or a stub
> > that supports several versions of GDB/MI or remote protocol, that's
> > fine by me, but let's have sections whose focus is to provide tips to
> > such programmers, not to tell the history of MI or the protocol's
> > evolution. That's quite a different attitude than what Bob wrote.
>
> Why not have a section in the internals manual: something like
> "How to (and not to) write frontends for GDB"?

That was the essence of my suggestion. The manual in which that
section will appear is less important.

FWIW, I feel that it should be in the user manual, since gdbint
describes the GDB internals, which this issue isn't part of. Also,
since both the remote protocol and MI are described in the user
manual, the reader interested in writing a stub or a front end will
naturally look for this stuff in the same document.