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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Merge mi-cli.exp and mi2-cli.exp
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:09:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <50469CDA.1030406@earthlink.net> (Stan Shebs's message of "Tue,	04 Sep 2012 17:29:14 -0700")
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>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net> writes:

Stan> That plan has pretty much fallen by the wayside.  We should probably
Stan> declare the current MI behavior as the "done" form of MI3, and
Stan> disallow any incompatible changes.  If someone wants to get ambitious,
Stan> they are free to specify and implement MI4. :-)

It seems to me that there is still room for MI3, since -i=mi still means
MI2.  Does anything we know of really use MI3?  It seems like clients
relying on this are taking liberties.

OTOH it isn't like we'll run out of version numbers.

Tom