From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20592 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2004 19:43:17 -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 20584 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2004 19:43:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakermmtao08.cox.net) (68.230.240.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Oct 2004 19:43:16 -0000 Received: from white ([68.9.64.121]) by lakermmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP id <20041006194316.BFJT29131.lakermmtao08.cox.net@white>; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:43:16 -0400 Received: from bob by white with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CFHgx-0003RW-00; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:43:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:53:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: "Nathan J. Williams" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Bumping MI protocol Message-ID: <20041006194315.GS12213@white> Mail-Followup-To: "Nathan J. Williams" , Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20041006010100.GA10896@white> <20041006111436.GA11747@white> <01c4ab9d$Blat.v2.2.2$923860c0@zahav.net.il> <20041006163131.GB12213@white> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00183.txt.bz2 On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:41:10PM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote: > Bob Rossi writes: > > > Either one of you, please describe to me which of these questions is > > foolish, and I will clearly explain to you why I need to know this > > information in order to build a front end. > > That you need to know this information, or think you need to know this > information, does not imply that it exists. I'm suggesting that MI is > young and unevolved enough that there is no serious body of work in > woking with its evolution. This means that your questions of "What > happens in case X?" are effectively "please spend time deciding what > happens in case X, which has not yet occurred." To put it in other > terms, an unfunded mandate. > > I think you'll make much more ground by assuming that none of these > questions have answers, and proposing possible answers (the "can you > use an MI command to check the MI version" thread seems more > productive to me, for example, because it included suggestions whose > merits can be concretely dissussed). > > > I am asking because it's not documented anywhere. If > > you want the questions to stop, maybe you will see that there is not > > enough information avaiable for front end developers to figure these > > thngs out. > > Yes, I think such things are not documented because they have not been > considered or they have not come up to be handled, not because of a > conspiracy to keep front-end developers in the dark. Thanks, I understand your point of view here. I'll try to refrain from "what if" questions. However, if I feel they will effect the implementation of my front end, I'll speak up. Bob Rossi