From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24500 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2004 14:01:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24492 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2004 14:01:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO legolas.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.24) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 30 Sep 2004 14:01:45 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.152.240]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.3-GR) with ESMTP id CSL15991 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:00:14 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:01:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Bob Rossi Message-ID: <01c4a6f5$Blat.v2.2.2$930393a0@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: Cenedese@indel.ch, gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20040930114917.GA2181@white> (message from Bob Rossi on Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:49:17 -0400) Subject: Re: MI documentation Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20040929173133.GB1054@white> <5.2.0.9.1.20040930082856.01cf3990@NT_SERVER> <20040930114917.GA2181@white> X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00268.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:49:17 -0400 > From: Bob Rossi > Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com > > It still doesn't tell you the asyncronous commands like you mentioned or > the fields that are available for input commands or anything else that I > would need to know for certain versions. > > I feel that knowing these things are a minimum requirement for having a > protocol between 2 processes. Upon thinking about this issue, I came to a conclusion that, as surprising as it might sound, I don't understand the problem that bugs you. All the MI versions except the latest are kept for one reason only: backward compatibility. So an already existing front end should use the version it was written to support, while a new front end should use the latest version, the one invoked by "-interpreter=mi". Doesn't this solve the problem? If not, why not, and what solutions you can suggest to solve that?