From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17226 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2003 15:43:46 -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 17219 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2003 15:43:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (172.16.49.200) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 29 Jan 2003 15:43:45 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702A2406D; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:43:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E37F6B0.7000306@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:43:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnaud Charlet Cc: Jim Blandy , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Various] obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface References: <20030128232906.B22772@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <3E3768D5.1060504@redhat.com> <20030129095458.B24931@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <3E37F0F2.7020506@redhat.com> <20030129163145.A4340@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00485.txt.bz2 >> 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