From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15613 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2003 22:38:46 -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 15606 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2003 22:38:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zenia.red-bean.com) (66.244.67.22) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 29 Jan 2003 22:38:46 -0000 Received: from zenia.red-bean.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0TMX78A024453; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:33:07 -0500 Received: (from jimb@localhost) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h0TMX6lf024449; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:33:06 -0500 To: tromey@redhat.com Cc: Arnaud Charlet , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Various] obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface References: <20030128232906.B22772@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <3E3768D5.1060504@redhat.com> <20030129095458.B24931@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <3E37F0F2.7020506@redhat.com> <20030129163145.A4340@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <3E37F6B0.7000306@redhat.com> <20030129165106.A7279@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <20030129155602.GB10725@redhat.com> <20030129170101.A9059@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <3E37FEF4.7080904@redhat.com> <20030129173411.A14044@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <87hebrpyx2.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:38:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87hebrpyx2.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.92 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00505.txt.bz2 I think we can expect MI to continue to change over time. It's a new interface, and we're all still learning what we need from it, and how it should behave. To expect complete stability at this point is to ensure that less-than-helpful behaviors also remain "stable". While GDB developers should obviously take care when making MI-visible changes (and I think they do), MI's clients also need to be tolerant of the changes that will occur, and they need to be constructive --- for example, by contributing test cases and good bug reports.