From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6396 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2004 16:41:17 -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 6388 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2004 16:41:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu) (18.7.7.80) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Oct 2004 16:41:15 -0000 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id i96GfDrb025705; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:41:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU [18.7.16.67]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as nathanw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id i96GfAJg002081 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:41:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from nathanw@localhost) by contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (8.12.9) id i96GfA9i005269; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:41:10 -0400 (EDT) To: Bob Rossi Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Bumping MI protocol References: <20041006010100.GA10896@white> <20041006111436.GA11747@white> <01c4ab9d$Blat.v2.2.2$923860c0@zahav.net.il> <20041006163131.GB12213@white> From: "Nathan J. Williams" Organization: Wasabi Systems, Inc. Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20041006163131.GB12213@white> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00133.txt.bz2 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. - Nathan