From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10684 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2004 12:13:33 -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 10665 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2004 12:13:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO balder.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.15) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Oct 2004 12:13:31 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.143.237]) by balder.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id DUU70905 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:13:20 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:30:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Bob Rossi Message-ID: <01c4ab9d$Blat.v2.2.2$923860c0@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: nathanw@wasabisystems.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20041006111436.GA11747@white> (message from Bob Rossi on Wed, 6 Oct 2004 07:14:36 -0400) Subject: Re: Bumping MI protocol Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20041006010100.GA10896@white> <20041006111436.GA11747@white> X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00122.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 07:14:36 -0400 > From: Bob Rossi > Cc: GDB > > Exscuse me for being frank, your statements about this question are foolish. I, for one, don't think Nathan's comments are foolish. As a volunteer project, we shouldn't waste too much time discussing hypothetical issues. > Nathan, how could a front end implement an MIX protocol if it doesn't > know what functions that protocol provides? No one requires a front end to implement support for features that are introduced by GDB versions released after the front end is released. The only way for a front end to support new features is to track GDB development, and check the GDB and MI versions to know what commands are safe to use. Put it differently, even if the MI version would be incremented each time a new command is added (which IMHO would be an unwise policy), you would need an update for the front end to support that command.