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Re: [RFA][patch 1/9] Yet another respin of the patch with initial Python support
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at br dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:17:44 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFA][patch 1/9] Yet another respin of the patch with initial Python support
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:41:53 -0300
>
> > Sorry, I'm unconvinced. Both features belong to a broader category of
> > means of extending GDB.
>
> In that case, my opinion is that the current "Canned Sequences of
> Commands" chapter should be demoted to a section (and its sections would
> then be demoted to subsubsections), and both this section and Python's
> section should be under a chapter called "Extending GDB".
Agreed.
> Rereading this thread, I think this is what Daniel suggested in the
> first place.
And I agreed:
>> Ok, in that case I have an alternative suggestion: how about renaming
>> the combined scripting chapter, and putting both Python scripting and
>> the existing information in the new chapter?
>
> I have no objections to renaming that chapter.
>
>> I don't think Python makes sense as a section of "Canned Sequences of
>> Commands", because Python scripts don't contain GDB commands.
>
> The chapter name doesn't say "GDB Commands", it says just "Commands".
> But let's not argue about that on which we agree ;-)