From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13641 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2008 22:43:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 13560 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Nov 2008 22:43:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx2.redhat.com (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (66.187.237.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:42:42 +0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA4Mgane018197; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:42:36 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mA4MgZBf021568; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:42:35 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-14-82.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.14.82]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA4MgYO3023859; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:42:34 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id CFD74508089; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:42:33 -0700 (MST) To: Thiago Jung Bauermann Cc: Rob Quill , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Convenience functions References: <8f2776cb0801301557t2e265b62u56d6df7cbcec1c84@mail.gmail.com> <20081023134150.GA21234@caradoc.them.org> <1225834560.20764.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081104222314.GB5391@caradoc.them.org> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: Tom Tromey X-Attribution: Tom Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20081104222314.GB5391@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Tue\, 4 Nov 2008 17\:23\:14 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: 2008-11/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Daniel" =3D=3D Daniel Jacobowitz writes: Thiago> The upside is that this will help focus the python submissions to Thiago> enabling a useful functionality as soon as possible. The downside (= or Thiago> maybe it's not a downside at all) is that a scope checking feature = is Thiago> being asked by users, so it would mean that such python script would Thiago> preferably be shipped in GDB releases... Daniel> Yes - we've got to get the mechanism to do that in place anyway. If you mean the "shipping python script" functionality, I'm hoping to piggyback on the part of S=C3=A9rgio's syscall work that deal with datadir. Thiago, just FYI, this is one patch we may have to pull from trunk to the python branch. Tom