Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code

Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11T21:08:47Z

> 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.