Re: Current Status of Insight

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>]

Nickolay Kolchin wrote:
> I care about Insight future.
> 
> In my opinion you all speak about wrong thing: we need a good
> integrated GUI for GDB, which is available on all platforms, have same
> same look and feel on them and support most (all) gdb features. At
> present time, only Insight fills this niche.
> 
> Instead of making GDB split or doing other weird things, we can make
> patches for GDB, to make libgdb reality. This will allow separate
> development of Insight and GDB. Such patches should be also "easily"
> accepted by GDB team.
> 
> As I understand, "libgdb" idea was talken about for years.
> 

We make the libgdb functionality available through the MI interface.

I designed the MI functions to resemble the (never implemented) set of 
libgdb functions.

So the current idea is just to exchange information with GDB throught 
the standardized MI.

Regards,
Fernando