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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> I don't think we entirely know how we're going to use this yet.  I
> have no plans to move C parts to a scripting language - I think that
> the scripting language should be optional, at least for one release,
> until we've seen how useful it is.  What happens after that is harder
> to say.

Seems reasonable to me. In the long run, we may end up implementing
new features in GDB in the scripting language if that is more
convenient, so it may end up not being just a user feature.