From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9020 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2009 19:51:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 9011 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2009 19:51:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx2.redhat.com (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (66.187.237.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:51:15 +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 n1BJn434026785; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:49:04 -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 n1BJn3bb002153; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:49:04 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-14-118.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.14.118]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1BJn2Vk012969; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:49:02 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 93975508250; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:49:00 -0700 (MST) To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann , Eli Zaretskii , Daniel Jacobowitz , pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code References: <200902100000.22671.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200902100235.59897.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20090210034834.GA20077@caradoc.them.org> <1234267091.13871.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090211060911.GB4225@adacore.com> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: Tom Tromey Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:51:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20090211060911.GB4225@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Tue\, 10 Feb 2009 22\:09\:11 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (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: 2009-02/txt/msg00245.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker writes: Tom> However, due to the controversy, I'm withdrawing this patch. I guess Tom> users can use "python execfile". Joel> Withdrawal refused (ahem, I'm trying to make it sound like a Joel> boss that refuses the resignation of one of his employees :-). :-) My reading of the thread is that there are three active proposals. One is the patch (perhaps without the -p flag), one is the patch but strictly preserving backward compatibility in the no-Python case, and one is the cookie idea. I do not like the cookie idea, because it is breaking new ground: few existing Python sources use an Emacs-style cookie. I do not like the backward compatibility proposal because I think it makes gdb less predictable. I also do not want to override the objections of other maintainers. This is more important to me than this feature. That is why I think we are at an impasse. Perhaps I read too much into the various replies -- that is easily corrected by more replies :-) Tom