From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16071 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2007 22:42:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 16052 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2007 22:42:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:42:10 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H43Bw-0007bZ-OS for gdb@sourceware.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:42:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:42:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which Message-ID: <20070108224208.GA29169@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org References: <20070108222005.GA27451@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) 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/msg00130.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:39:28PM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: > This is what I did to add perl support and it worked fairly well. Right. In case I forget to credit you in the future: I still have a copy of your patches, and though I didn't reuse any of it, I definitely consulted and appreciated them. At the moment I have a very rough prototype using Guile and GDB/MI. > Some work will be needed to handle exceptions gracefully on the > scripting library side. I prefer python too. However, I think it is > more important that there be *a* scripting language than that it be > the "right" one. Getting bogged down in bike-shedding is counter to > everyone's interests. Amen. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery