Re: [Commit] New file

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:07:39 +0100

New elisp file which provides a graphical user interface to GDB for Emacs.


IMHO, it shouldn't have been committed without discussion (either
RFA/RFC here or even a general discussion on gdb@sources.redhat.com)..
I've appologized for my foobar.

I personally don't like the idea of having an Emacs file in the GDB
distribution.  We had such a file in the past, and the result was that
it could never be in sync with the Emacs code base.  I'm unwilling to
go through that experience once again.
As this code evolves it is going to find that it is caught between two 
competing masters: GDB; and EMACS.  For each we'll need to juggle both 
interface and release cycle concerns.  As such we need to decide which 
of those two masters is, at least for the moment, more important.

- the current development focus is on GDB's MI
At present the goal is to get the code working with MI, and that, very 
likely will mean extending the MI interface.  A given iteration of this 
code will very likely be specific to >= vN of GDB.

- the current development is work-in-progress
At present this code is very much in its development phase.  With GDB's 
more frequent release cycles there's a greater oportunity to expose the 
code to a wider audience.

Long term, as this .el file and MI mature, returning the code to EMACS 
will likely make sense.  I think we're 1-2 GDB releases away from that 
though.

Andrew