From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@ACT-Europe.FR>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Various] obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E37F6B0.7000306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030129163145.A4340@dublin.int.act-europe.fr>
>> I don't know about you, but if my project was in this situtation I'd be
>> doing everything possible to move away from annotations and towards MI.
>
>
> We're not going to drop annotations anytime soon, since supporting older
> versions of gdb is important.
>
> So in any case, we're talking about supporting *both* annotations and MI.
>
> Since as I stated in a previous message, MI has currently known limitations and
> drawbacks, I'm sure you'll agree that if you were in our situation, you
> would hesitate adding support for MI at this stage, and would rather wait
> for things to stabilize.
Honestly? No. MI has `kick ass' features sufficent to justify the move
now:
the varobj - which makes it possible for the IDE to provide good
interactive performance
a real syntax - which frees the ide from CLI stupidity such as ``(gdb)
set x = expression''.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-29 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-28 20:05 Jim Blandy
2003-01-28 20:36 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-29 6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-29 21:56 ` Jim Blandy
2003-01-28 22:29 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-01-29 5:38 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-29 8:55 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-01-29 15:19 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-29 15:31 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-01-29 15:43 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-01-29 15:51 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-01-29 15:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-01-29 16:01 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-01-29 16:19 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-29 16:34 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-01-29 17:16 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-29 19:03 ` Tom Tromey
2003-01-29 22:38 ` Jim Blandy
2003-01-29 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-31 20:14 Nick Roberts
2003-01-31 20:56 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-01-31 21:10 ` Andrew Cagney
[not found] ` <15931.6572.456534.588251@nick.uklinux.net>
[not found] ` <15931.8581.923838.921739@localhost.redhat.com>
2003-02-01 16:16 ` Nick Roberts
2003-01-31 22:33 ` Nick Roberts
2003-02-01 4:13 ` Jim Blandy
[not found] <1044050405.3227.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2003-02-01 0:43 ` Jim Ingham
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