From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21675 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2004 01:08:38 -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 21666 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2004 01:08:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO demos.bsdclusters.com) (69.55.225.36) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 30 Sep 2004 01:08:36 -0000 Received: from demos.bsdclusters.com (demos [69.55.225.36]) by demos.bsdclusters.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8U18aAi032322; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kmacy@eventdriven.org) Received: from localhost (kmacy@localhost) by demos.bsdclusters.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i8U18aHN032319; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:08:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: demos.bsdclusters.com: kmacy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:08:00 -0000 From: Kip Macy X-X-Sender: kmacy@demos.bsdclusters.com To: Brian McQueen cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Gdb with Guile In-Reply-To: <1096504520.17EBA60@g28.dngr.org> Message-ID: <20040929180627.A91307@demos.bsdclusters.com> References: <1096504520.17EBA60@g28.dngr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00261.txt.bz2 With MI it is easy enough to interface with any language as well as other applications such as GUIs. In-house I've got support for scripting GDB with perl. -Kip On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Brian McQueen wrote: > I was wondering if you guys had considered linking guile in with gdb to > provide the extension language functionality prior to going ahead with > MI. With Guile it is very easy to add a lightweight, yet excellent > extension language, and it is a complementary GNU project. I think it > would be a fun project. That's why I'm asking - I'd like to do it > myself. So I wonder if it was considered to be a bad idea. How did you > arrive at MI1 and MI2? Being quite familiar with Guile, I think it > would be a better choice. > > --bmcqueen >