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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:08:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:42:49 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, brobecker@adacore.com,
> 	bauerman@br.ibm.com, pedro@codesourcery.com,
> 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:21:00PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Considering that this is the only alternative proposed so far that has
> > the most chances to be accepted, and that it is 100% backwards
> > compatible, perhaps you could reconsider.
> 
> I've been successfully convinced that this would be a bad idea.
> 
> Could you explain why you think GDB should try to parse files
> with Python extensions as CLI scripts?  I can't think of any
> case where this would be useful.

I already explained that.