Re: [Various] obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

>>>>> "Arnaud" == Arnaud Charlet <charlet@ACT-Europe.FR> writes:

>> People have been working on that.  Apple has a hacked GDB where it works 
>> NOW!

Arnaud> Right, that's not acceptable in the context of a multipurpose
Arnaud> and portable GUI front-end, where basically people can plug
Arnaud> the version of gdb they like.  So Apple's approach of hacking
Arnaud> a particular version of gdb is not feasible, and not something
Arnaud> that can be maintained in the long run.

The Eclipse CDT developers decided to support only certain gdb
releases for a given CDT release.  Surely that is what everyone does
-- though Eclipse may support a much narrower range of gdb versions
than you would like.

Also, Eclipse currently doesn't have a console (to my knowledge; I
haven't played with the latest snapshots yet).  So some of the major
problems with MI are avoided.

Arnaud> Does it mean that there are no plans to actually fix this
Arnaud> critical missing feature, and that each front-end will have to
Arnaud> "hack around it" ?

My impression is that people are working on MI and trying to eliminate
the remaining problems.

Tom