From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14621 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2004 07:09:30 -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 14612 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2004 07:09:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.254.0.204) by sourceware.org with QMTP; 20 Aug 2004 07:09:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 31577 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2004 07:09:28 -0000 Received: from dsl081-242-080.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.1.111]) (gdb001@[64.81.242.80]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with RC4-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 20 Aug 2004 07:09:28 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20040819234921.GA4966@white> References: <20040810201440.GA24186@white> <20040819234921.GA4966@white> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Friesen Subject: Re: GDB/XMI (XML Machine Interface) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:09:00 -0000 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00244.txt.bz2 On Aug 19, 2004, at 4:49 PM, Bob Rossi wrote: > > Chris F suggested, > He defiantly didn't see the benefit to switching to XMI, since XML > is harder > for him to understand than MI output. That's uncharitable, try: Didn't see a big benefit in using one structured data format over the other. All things being equal, finds pages of MI easier to read than the order of magnitude longer output that XML would be. > I don't really know where to go from here. The XML change I think is a > no brainer. > > Finally, the difference between a text based protocol and a libgdb > interface is irrelevant > to me. I would personally prefer the text based protocol at this point > in time seeing that > there is no libgdb. What stopped the production of that effort? Did license issues prevent adoption? I know that would likely keep me from being able to use a libgdb. Yeah, yeah dry your eyes. ;-) Go for the Gold, -ChrisF