From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3626 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2007 21:48:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 3617 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2007 21:48:14 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:48:09 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-124-45.snap.net.nz [202.124.124.45]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2143D82EA; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:48:05 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 20D624F6DF; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:48:03 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17828.3474.603062.717814@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:48:00 -0000 To: Paul Koning Cc: bob_rossi@cox.net, jimb@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which In-Reply-To: <17828.2852.359000.383405@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <20070108222005.GA27451@nevyn.them.org> <20070109202343.GD9844@cox.net> <17828.2852.359000.383405@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.92.6 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00155.txt.bz2 > I would think it's good to stay away from TCL. I won't say more > because I don't want to start a language war. Python can certainly be > scripted, and it has good support for testsuite type things. TCL is what Totalview uses for it's CLI; it's quite adequate for basic programming. How complex will these scripts be? Generally .gdbinit is just a series of small functions. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob