From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7939 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2008 14:02:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 7928 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jul 2008 14:02:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il (HELO mtaout6.012.net.il) (84.95.2.16) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:02:29 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.123.9]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K4M005HO9M6T450@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:01:19 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:02:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFA][patch 1/9] Yet another respin of the patch with initial Python support In-reply-to: <20080726134252.GA6077@caradoc.them.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: bauerman@br.ibm.com, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: References: <20080429155304.288626880@br.ibm.com> <20080528205921.GA2969@caradoc.them.org> <20080615181833.uxmo25mg0kko40kw@imap.linux.ibm.com> <1216107418.14956.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1216245620.12209.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080718195010.GA14356@caradoc.them.org> <1216653969.31797.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080726134252.GA6077@caradoc.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2008-07/txt/msg00477.txt.bz2 > Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:42:52 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann , tromey@redhat.com, > gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:06:30PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > * Emacs:: Using @value{GDBN} under @sc{gnu} Emacs > > > * GDB/MI:: @value{GDBN}'s Machine Interface. > > > * Annotations:: @value{GDBN}'s annotation interface. > > > +* Python:: Scripting @value{GDBN} using Python. > > > > I think this should not be a separate chapter, but rather a section of > > the "Canned Sequences of Commands" chapter. > > Can I suggest leaving it in the top level menu? Of course, you can suggest it. > The bits added by > this patch are similar to canned sequences of commands ("define"), but > this is the first patch of hopefully many; you'll be able to use it > for more than just macros. Sorry, I don't understand this rationale (and what does it have to do with macros? what macros?). Please elaborate. My rationale is simple: we should have a single chapter for scripting, because that's where a reader would look for information on how to write GDB scripts. If there's sense to distributing this information between separate chapters, please explain what that is.