From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16512 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2005 10:42:57 -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 16499 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Sep 2005 10:42:53 -0000 Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (HELO nitzan.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:42:53 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-166-73.inter.net.il [84.228.166.73]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id BLC24779 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:42:48 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:42:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Stan Shebs CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <4329D5A3.8030202@apple.com> (message from Stan Shebs on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:12:19 -0700) Subject: Re: Using reverse execution Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <432628AA.2040808@apple.com> <43277083.1040708@apple.com> <4328A574.5080906@apple.com> <43290862.9040204@apple.com> <4329D5A3.8030202@apple.com> X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00112.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:12:19 -0700 > From: Stan Shebs > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com > > The whole omniscient debugging thing is actually a good example of > why I'm asking questions about user experience - while there are lots > of people interested, it gets magazine writeups, etc, there is very > little feedback from actual users that I could find. I mentioned that article because I think it explains quite a bit why a feature like this is very useful. You asked some questions about that aspect. In addition, one could download the software linked to from that article and play with it a little, thus gaining some first-hand experience. Anyway, I really don't understand why we need to discuss all this at such length. Either there is a volunteer who is ready to do the job of adding this, or there isn't. In the latter case, there's no sense arguing about the value of the feature; in the former case, will we really consider rejecting the patches that implement the feature because some of us are unsure how useful it will be?