From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21654 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2008 07:20:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 21645 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jan 2008 07:20:32 -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; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:20:05 +0000 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JK7Eo-0008WJ-95 for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:20:02 +0000 Received: from 77.246.241.246 ([77.246.241.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:20:02 +0000 Received: from vladimir by 77.246.241.246 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:20:02 +0000 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: RE: GDB Annotations : Support plan Followup-To: gmane.comp.gdb.devel Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-01/txt/msg00329.txt.bz2 Jain, Rohit wrote: > Hi, > > > > GDB is now supporting GDB/MI interface, and the annotation mechanism has > now become obsolete. > > > > Is there any plan to completely discontinue the support for annotations > in future? > > If yes, and if you know approximate release period that annotations are > going to exist, please let me know. > > If no, then is it safe to assume that GDB/MI interface and annotations > (although obsolete!) are going to co-exist? If I understand correctly, right now annotations are essentially fossilized --- nobody adds new annotations, and due to small test coverage, it's hard to make sure that existing annotations are not broken. IMO, it would be great to remove them, tomorrow. However, it's probably more of a political question, than a technical one, so no estimate of low long they will stay can be provided. - Volodya