From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7510 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2004 19:26:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7361 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2004 19:26:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.157.170.238) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2004 19:26:45 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AEA2B9D; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:26:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4086CAEE.6090807@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:26:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfc] Bug fixes for CLI "show" command References: <20040419200005.GA16011@nevyn.them.org> <40855F1E.9080906@gnu.org> <20040421145917.GA4980@nevyn.them.org> <40869808.50409@gnu.org> <20040421155350.GA6885@nevyn.them.org> <3405-Wed21Apr2004213810+0300-eliz@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <3405-Wed21Apr2004213810+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00502.txt.bz2 >>>> > If we touch any i18n breakage, we should fix it. Just like, if we break >>>> > any deprecated code, we should fix it. >> >>> >>> I am not interested in reworking the interface of widely used functions >>> to support i18n, when there is no comprehensive plan or anyone working >>> on i18n support for GDB. Is that really unreasonable? It's just >>> wasted work! > > > FWIW, I think we should not introduce new i18n problems, even though > we don't actively work on adding i18n support at this time. Yep. We've even got some i18n patches submitted (why I created the i18n category in the bug database). The only interface that needs reworking is add_setshow_cmd. The old code (using add_set_cmd and add_set_from_show) can be pushed to one side. Andrew