From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, brobecker@adacore.com, bauerman@br.ibm.com,
pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090211211418.GA11876@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uab8sy955.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:08:06PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Could you explain why you think GDB should try to parse files
> > with Python extensions as CLI scripts? I can't think of any
> > case where this would be useful.
>
> I already explained that.
Is this what you're referring to, or am I missing a further explanation?
> Yes, this is called "backward compatibility". It just could be that
> one reason why someone configures GDB without Python is that they
> don't want this incompatible change.
This argument would prevent us ever adding new commands or changing
the behavior of a command without adding a configure option for them.
The CLI already evolves over time; I don't think this level of
compatibility is a realistic goal for us.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-08 1:16 Tom Tromey
2009-02-08 1:34 ` Tom Tromey
2009-02-08 4:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-08 4:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-09 1:53 ` Doug Evans
2009-02-09 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 1:37 ` Tom Tromey
2009-02-10 1:30 ` Tom Tromey
2009-02-09 1:35 ` Doug Evans
2009-02-10 0:00 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-10 1:29 ` Tom Tromey
2009-02-10 2:36 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-10 3:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-02-10 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 11:58 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-02-10 17:04 ` Tom Tromey
2009-02-11 2:25 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-02-11 6:09 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-02-11 19:51 ` Tom Tromey
2009-02-11 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11 20:39 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-02-11 21:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11 21:26 ` Matt Rice
2009-02-11 21:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11 21:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11 22:01 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-02-12 3:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-12 6:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-02-12 20:32 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-02-12 22:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-13 8:42 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-02-13 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-17 0:58 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-02-17 5:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-17 20:37 ` Tom Tromey
2009-02-19 21:45 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-06-01 3:57 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-06-01 5:05 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-01 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-01 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-01 17:54 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-06-10 23:10 ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-11 14:19 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-07-03 7:21 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2010-01-15 7:21 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-15 9:13 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-15 18:03 ` Tom Tromey
2010-01-18 6:33 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-18 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-19 10:32 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-02-11 20:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-02-11 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11 21:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-02-11 21:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11 20:54 ` Tom Tromey
2009-02-11 21:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11 20:46 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-02-11 20:58 ` Tom Tromey
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