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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Robert Lupton the Good <rhl@astro.princeton.edu>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Option parsing in gdb python
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:32:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <1C69408D-CEF9-4B86-A2E2-4A7547F069D9@astro.princeton.edu>	(Robert Lupton the Good's message of "Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:05:51	-0400")
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Lupton the Good <rhl@astro.princeton.edu> writes:

Robert> I can do this (and did; read on, Dear Reader).  Does gdb python
Robert> have a position on python 2.6 support?  If so, and if gdb
Robert> accepts this parser, we should provide both and wrap the imports
Robert> in try blocks

I think something like this would be worthwhile.

The bar is reasonably high for getting stuff into gdb.
You need copyright assignment papers for non-trivial additions; plus
documentation and a test case.

Tom