From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 994 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2009 00:43:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 983 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jan 2009 00:43:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:43:03 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694052A964D; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:43:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id GTJUZ34UEtbB; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:43:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225642A9648; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:43:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA86FE7ACD; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:42:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:43:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Thiago Jung Bauermann Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Discussing the next GDB release (GDB 7.0?) Message-ID: <20090130004258.GB14194@adacore.com> References: <20090115034552.GF24105@adacore.com> <1233114539.16553.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1233114539.16553.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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: 2009-01/txt/msg00185.txt.bz2 > > As a "stretch" goal we could consider support for new commands and > > parameters implemented in Python, or convenience functions. I think > > that code is also reasonably mature, useful, and independent from the > > other Python bits. > > I'd like to see those in as well. [...] > To start small, submitting a patch for frame support and convenience > functions would already allow implementation of $caller_is... What do > you think? I would love to see as much mature python support as possible in the first release. It's more a matter of how much we can submit and review before we branch. Go ahead, submit the patches and we will try to review them. We have yet to make a decision on when to branch&release, but I still don't have enough elements to make a decision. To be announced later... -- Joel