Re: [patch] Indirect access to GDB history variables

Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-16T19:43:54Z

> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:45:08 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: steverod@netapp.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> > if the embedded language will satisfy Steve's needs, I'm for it. But
> > I fear that agreeing on the language will take time, in which case
> > postponing this change will be just that.
>
> It may be so. My tentative plan was to offer a selection, probably
> Perl and Python and Guile; once the common infrastructure is in place,
> it's really not hard to add languages and enable them at configure
> time. The alternative would be to add only Guile, since that's the
> language the FSF officially recommends for such things - I don't want
> to take that alternative, though, since I'm practically useless in
> Guile. I have implemented Guile embedding, by the way, though never
> finished it up.

I have no objections for the list of languages you suggested.

We could also just accept Steve's patch and see if anyone hollers.
The next release is still far away, so we have enough to time to see
if something breaks as the result.