From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14070 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2011 15:02:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 14055 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Aug 2011 15:02:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_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; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:02:40 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7UF2aaq006580 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:02:36 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p7UF2ZvP005061; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:02:35 -0400 Received: from barimba (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 p7UF2YAJ028726; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:02:34 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: =?utf-8?B?QW5kcsOpIFDDtm5pdHo=?= Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] 12843 References: <4E56C5A0.60802@redhat.com> <201108291417.02082.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> <20110829192112.GA29862@host1.jankratochvil.net> <201108301021.15313.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:02:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <201108301021.15313.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> (=?utf-8?Q?=22An?= =?utf-8?Q?dr=C3=A9_P=C3=B6nitz=22's?= message of "Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:21:15 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (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: 2011-08/txt/msg00606.txt.bz2 Jan> When you are already considering changes on the front end side has been Jan> discussed some replacement by D-Bus, ORBit2 or similar RPC protocol? Andr=C3=A9> Please, pretty please, don't go down that road. I think this is easily done already without much help from us -- Python has a variety of RPC approaches out of the box, you could write up XMLRPC to our API pretty easily. Andr=C3=A9> I've been adding extra "MI style" output fields for all kind of= data, Andr=C3=A9> including structured and image data, for two years now, and=20= =20 Andr=C3=A9> escaping is _really_ not a problem. Do you generate MI-compliant output from Python? I'm curious. Tom