From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11920 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2009 14:50:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 11911 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Sep 2009 14:50:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:50:50 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DC510DC7; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:50:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (209.195.188.212.nauticom.net [209.195.188.212]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1821510DB3; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:50:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mq6ha-00028R-Qw; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:50:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:50:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Vladimir Prus Cc: Nick Roberts , Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [MI] -stack-list-variables Message-ID: <20090922145046.GA8161@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Vladimir Prus , Nick Roberts , Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200909191412.37692.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <200909212002.44063.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <19127.63969.180199.561232@totara.tehura.co.nz> <200909220931.27493.vladimir@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909220931.27493.vladimir@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00703.txt.bz2 On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:31:26AM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote: > On Tuesday 22 September 2009 Nick Roberts wrote: > > As a maintainer I would try to accommodate such requests and reserve my > > judgements for technical matters. > > I disagree. Sensible frontend interface is only possible if we (or I) understand > specific use cases that are supported, and how they are supposed, as opposed to > working from requests to add some information to some command. I don't think you, as a single individual, should have to understand the needs of every frontend. I don't think any one person understands every way that GDB can be used. I'm not sure why this has turned into such a big argument though... -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery