Re: obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface

[Mike Mueller <mmueller@cs.uri.edu>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:

> I don't think that is sufficient - making something deprecated 
> only tells the user that they should not use it in new 
> development.  Not that they must rewrite existing code to not 
> use it.  To do that we'd have to  obsolete it.  (Asside, this is 
> the same as for code - deprecating a  function only stops it 
> being used in new code.)
 
> I think something needs to be done to the next release that `rubs 
> the  users nose in it'.

> Andrew

I would like to reiterate the points that many have made thus far.

Existing applications depend on annotate level 1 (ddd, gvd, ...) and 
level 2 (emacs, cgdb).  Until the MI interface is complete (supports 
CLI and GDB user output) and all existing applications have made 
the switch to using the MI, the annotations cannot be removed.  
My current understanding is that GDB/MI is not a completely viable 
alternative for these GDB interfaces to use to replace annotate 1 or 
2.  Therefore, the annotations -- while being deprecated -- must be 
retained in future releases until the GDB/MI is capable of 
supporting these applications.

Mike

(CGDB developer -- http://cgdb.sourceforge.net)