From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the "-info-os" command to MI
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34nyugzd2.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA892F4.3000302@earthlink.net> (Stan Shebs's message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:08:36 -0700")
>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net> writes:
Stan> I can see the appeal of the decoupling, but we share argument parsing
Stan> like this because there's not a lot of practical purpose to having two
Stan> parsers - once the command is out there and being used, we're loath to
Stan> change it much anyway. To me, the MI's main value is in avoiding
Stan> cases where CLI ambiguity and elision makes for a better user
Stan> experience, but in this case the arguments are data-driven by
Stan> platform-specific code, not much ambiguity involved.
Ok, I won't insist on it.
I thought this had bit us before but I couldn't find a case in the
archives. So maybe my concerns are theoretical.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-27 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 15:52 Kwok Cheung Yeung
2011-10-13 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-23 23:37 ` Kwok Cheung Yeung
2011-12-06 18:53 ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-21 20:53 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-27 0:24 ` Stan Shebs
2011-10-27 16:45 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-11-24 23:15 ` Kwok Cheung Yeung
2011-11-25 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-29 19:01 ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-29 23:18 ` Kwok Cheung Yeung
2011-11-30 14:47 ` Tom Tromey
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