Re: [RFA] Add new command class_experimental

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:25:46 -0800
>>From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
>>
>>This is to add a new category of gdb commands, "experimental".
>>These will be explicitly "use at your own risk", and gdb will
>>tell you so.
> 
> 
> Hmm... I'm not sure I like this idea.  Why not add these as normal
> commands?  If it's useful and stable enough, people will use it.  As
> for possible bugs, the non-experimental stuff has those too.

Well, because we *don't* regard it as stable.  Still using
the rcore command as the canonical example, it's highly
experimental, nowhere near "finished", and we can't even
characterize when it will work, and when it won't.  I
would not feel comfortable inviting an unsophisticated
user to use it, and I wouldn't want to take on the task
of explaining to an unsophisticated user the circumstances
under which it might or might not be safe to use.

I think of this as a compromise, to encourage collaborative
development.  Of course I'm willing to just leave the rcore
command out there as a patch, but I figured there could easily
be other features like it, that we might want to "try out"
without implying that they are generally safe, stable, or
"finished".