From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21417 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2003 19:53:49 -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 21394 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2003 19:53:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO odin.cs.uri.edu) (131.128.81.250) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 4 Feb 2003 19:53:49 -0000 Received: from andromeda.cs.uri.edu (IDENT:root@andromeda.cs.uri.edu [131.128.81.240]) by odin.cs.uri.edu (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h14Jrmq16735 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:53:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (mmueller@localhost) by andromeda.cs.uri.edu (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h14Jrmh05954 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:53:48 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: andromeda.cs.uri.edu: mmueller owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:53:00 -0000 From: Mike Mueller To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: obsoleting annotate level 2 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 Jim Blandy wrote: > The plan has been, for a very long time, to remove all > annotations. I proposed keeping level one annotations. Here was > my rationale: > Level one annotations are implemented by code at two or three > points in GDB. They're not a big deal to maintain. And they're > what current releases of Emacs use. > Level two annotations are implemented by (I think) around eighty > different bits of code, scattered throughout GDB. > Thus, while level one annotations are only a small maintenance > burden, level two annotations are. Even if Emacs had been using > level two annotations for years, we would be trying to get rid of > them. Jim, Our only concern is that annotate 2 is the basis of our application. Our request is that the removal of annotate 2 is done when MI is stable and is successfully used by at least one application. Until MI has reached that point, our application will be forced to depend on annotate 2. Note that we are not arguing to keep annotate 2 around forever. Our hope is simply that annotate 2 will stay around until MI reaches a mature and stable state. Thanks, Mike