From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20178 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2003 03:25:05 -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 20171 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2003 03:25:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (142.179.108.108) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2003 03:25:03 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id D6D3AD2DAF; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:37:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Elena Zannoni , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: vast numbers of unimplemented MI commands. Message-ID: <20030911032502.GA945@gnat.com> References: <20030911020429.GF17937@white> <16223.58420.108851.41512@localhost.redhat.com> <20030911031111.GG17937@white> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030911031111.GG17937@white> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00152.txt.bz2 > What is the best solution? ... Somebody like you for instance (who understands the needs of GDB frontends because he's developping one) who also invests time into making GDB/MI better. See for instance one of the commands that our GVD (our graphical front-end) needed: What we did was simply propose a new command, discussed it, and then implemented it. It's true that our example is a bit biased because the alternative way is a real pain compared to what the new command provides, so one could say there was no real work-around to the problem. But still, this is how things moved forward for us. Could it work for you? My suggestion would be that you implement all the functions you need, and also make suggestions when something is missing... I think the current speed of MI development is partly because few of its users send any suggestion or complaint - and the fact that one can "work around" any missing command doesn't help. And even if somebody sends suggestions, I'm not certain anybody will stand up and implement the suggestion unless he has any incentive to do so: And my guess is that the only people who could feel this incentive are the developpers working on a GDB frontend. Again, people like you. -- Joel