From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15509 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2006 10:35:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 15500 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Mar 2006 10:35:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:35:14 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FKCIY-0005mw-TO for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:35:10 +0100 Received: from zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su ([158.250.17.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:35:10 +0100 Received: from ghost by zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:35:10 +0100 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: Re: MI: changing breakpoint location Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20060316160521.GA13476@nevyn.them.org> <200603161911.55098.ghost@cs.msu.su> <20060316161556.GA14155@nevyn.them.org> <20060316164449.GA14811@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.8.2 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> Of course, frontend maintainers and gdb maintainers are different groups, >> so if you mean adding this to gdb will move work from frontend >> maintainers to gdb maintainers and you don't like that idea, I >> understand. Or you object to the idea even if it will backed up by a >> patch eventually? > > It's not implementing it in GDB that's a problem. As I said above, > it's maintaining it and testing it forevermore. That's why I want to > keep the MI interface well defined and as small as possible (but no > smaller). Let me try again. Maintaining and testing this in gdb is extra work. Maintaining and testing this in frontends is extra work as well, and GUIs are less suitable for automatic testing. Do you prefer to have this maintained and tested in frontends because that means less work for you, or because it's more technically reasonable, in your optinion? - Volodya