Re: [RFA][patch 1/9] Yet another respin of the patch with initial Python support

Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-26T14:02:59Z

> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:42:52 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>, tromey@redhat.com,
> gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:06:30PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > * Emacs:: Using @value{GDBN} under @sc{gnu} Emacs
> > > * GDB/MI:: @value{GDBN}'s Machine Interface.
> > > * Annotations:: @value{GDBN}'s annotation interface.
> > > +* Python:: Scripting @value{GDBN} using Python.
> >
> > I think this should not be a separate chapter, but rather a section of
> > the "Canned Sequences of Commands" chapter.
>
> Can I suggest leaving it in the top level menu?

Of course, you can suggest it.

> The bits added by
> this patch are similar to canned sequences of commands ("define"), but
> this is the first patch of hopefully many; you'll be able to use it
> for more than just macros.

Sorry, I don't understand this rationale (and what does it have to do
with macros? what macros?). Please elaborate.

My rationale is simple: we should have a single chapter for scripting,
because that's where a reader would look for information on how to
write GDB scripts. If there's sense to distributing this information
between separate chapters, please explain what that is.