From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3994 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2009 05:44:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 3984 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Sep 2009 05:44:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:44:21 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MnnJT-0006Qe-Ey for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:44:19 +0200 Received: from h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru ([86.62.88.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:44:19 +0200 Received: from vladimir by h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:44:19 +0200 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: Re: Patch: implement new dynamic varobj spec Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:44:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 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/msg00499.txt.bz2 Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Roberts writes: > > Nick> I would really like to use these improvements in Emacs but the > Nick> release isn't far away. So I would request that > Nick> -enable-pretty-printing is marked as an EXPERIMENTAL feature in > Nick> the manual. That way changes can be made without anyone > Nick> complaining. Maybe by 7.1 early next year there will be frontends > Nick> that have worked out how to use it and that marking could be > Nick> removed. > > I think we've been conservative enough about this code that it is > probably reasonable to let people rely on it. It has been through a lot > of vetting. > > However, I don't mind adding a note to the manual if other maintainers > want that. I think it makes sense. You list 3 known issues in the original email, and while I hope we'll fix them by 7.0, there will be just too little time for extensive testing. Let's keep our options open for a bit more. - Volodya