From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13312 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2009 19:59:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 13303 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Sep 2009 19:59:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:59:11 +0000 Received: from int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.17]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8EJx9j6020878; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:59:09 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8EJx8Rn020311; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:59:08 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8EJx7Wt004688; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:59:07 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id F0489378175; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:59:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts) Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Patch: implement new dynamic varobj spec References: <19113.58116.381538.294631@totara.tehura.co.nz> <19114.58228.563201.654364@totara.tehura.co.nz> Reply-To: Tom Tromey Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:59:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <19114.58228.563201.654364@totara.tehura.co.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:55:32 +1200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/msg00446.txt.bz2 >>>>> "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. Tom