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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Checking for supported packets
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u64lvaw2t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060330215247.GA9062@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel 	Jacobowitz on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:52:47 -0500)

> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:52:47 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> Here's the actual proposal, in texinfo.  I also have a tested
> implementation of this, which I will not post right away; I'd
> like feedback on the interface first, if anyone has comments.

Should I restrain from commenting on the documentation itself for now?

> (Is Texinfo or makeinfo's text output more useful for proposals?
> I can do either.)

I prefer Texinfo, since it shows things that are not visible in the
text output (such as indexing and markup that only shows in the
printed version).

> +The reply is one or more feature responses, or empty if this packet is
> +not supported.

The notion of ``empty response'' is not described anywhere in the
manual, AFAICS.  (Yes, this is not directly related to the changes you
are proposing, but I'd like this to be fixed as a side effect.)


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-31  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-14  2:15 [remote] " Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-21 14:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-22 16:39   ` Paul Koning
2006-03-31  6:38   ` [PROPOSAL] " Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-31  9:51     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-03-31 14:09       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
     [not found]         ` <uvetuaep4.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <20060331141958.GA28073@nevyn.them.org>
2006-04-01 10:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-10  7:21               ` [PROPOSAL] Checking for supported packets - revised Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-10 18:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-10 21:49                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-11  6:02                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-11  0:19                 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-11  2:26                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-11  2:36                     ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-12 13:55                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-12 18:24                         ` PAUL GILLIAM
2006-05-23 22:11                         ` Data for: " Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-26 22:12                           ` Take three: [PROPOSAL] Checking for supported packets Daniel Jacobowitz

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