From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29922 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2004 06:28:11 -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 29914 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2004 06:28:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO capitol.mail.pas.earthlink.net) (207.217.120.180) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 Aug 2004 06:28:10 -0000 Received: from ip216-26-76-134.dsl.du.teleport.com ([216.26.76.134] helo=stray.canids) by capitol.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Bumao-0007MU-00 for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:28:10 -0700 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by stray.canids (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196A34D4015 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:28:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Felix Lee To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GDB/XMI (XML Machine Interface) References: <5956F1E2-EB0D-11D8-9949-000A9569836A@apple.com> <8A54B4DA-EB30-11D8-9650-000A95DA1012@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <8A54B4DA-EB30-11D8-9650-000A95DA1012@speakeasy.net> on Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:51:11 PDT from Chris Friesen Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:28:00 -0000 Message-Id: <20040811062809.196A34D4015@stray.canids> X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00162.txt.bz2 Chris Friesen : > (The code is *not* the spec people...) code is usually less ambiguous than specs. it's not clear to me that there's much point in making a spec for something that's likely to have only one implementation that will always have public source code. well, isolating it as a spec should make some things easier, like the versioning issue. I wish the world had settled on something other than XML. it's a lot harder to use than, say, LISP syntax, and libxml2 is about as much code as a Common LISP implementation. oh well. --