From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7628 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2004 21:34:37 -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 7621 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2004 21:34:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO epic.mail.pas.earthlink.net) (207.217.120.181) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 Aug 2004 21:34:36 -0000 Received: from ip216-26-76-134.dsl.du.teleport.com ([216.26.76.134] helo=stray.canids) by epic.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1ByH1t-00043J-00; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:34:33 -0700 Received: from stray.canids (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by stray.canids (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD014D400C; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:34:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Felix Lee To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, cagney@redhat.com, ezannoni@redhat.com, fnasser@redhat.com Subject: Re: GDB/XMI (XML Machine Interface) References: <20040810201440.GA24186@white> <20040819234921.GA4966@white> <20040820103420.340A64D400C@stray.canids> <20040820125443.GB5703@white> <20040820183447.GA21565@nevyn.them.org> <20040820184900.GA5806@white> <20040820185159.GA22481@nevyn.them.org> <20040820192458.GB5806@white> <20040820194224.GA24407@nevyn.them.org> <20040820195928.GA6372@white> In-Reply-To: <20040820195928.GA6372@white> on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:59:28 EDT from Bob Rossi Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:34:00 -0000 Message-Id: <20040820213432.8DD014D400C@stray.canids> X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00263.txt.bz2 Bob Rossi : > I am not interested in writing this library. I am interested in the XML > approach. Do you know why yet? It's because I won't have to write a > library. No one will. Ever. parsing mi is trivial. writing a wrapper to do bidirectional translation to xml is trivial. designing the schema is the hard part. all this can be done without changes to gdb itself. if it's workable and maintainable, then it will be easier to convince people to absorb it into the gdb source and remove the indirection so that gdb speaks xml 'natively'. --