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Re: MI and backwards compatibility
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:23:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: MI and backwards compatibility
- References: <20041001142517.GD4100@white>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:25:17 -0400
> From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
>
> So, here is an example that I don't see to far fetched within the next
> few years. The question is, what does backwards compatibility mean?
> This is what I expect,
>
> FE 1.0 or after to never work with GDB 1.0
> FE 1.0 to work with GDB 2.0 on using mi2.
> FE 2.0 to work with GDB 2.0 and 3.0 using mi2
> and with GDB 4.0 on with mi3
> FE 3.0 to work with GDB 2.0 and 3.0 using mi2
> and with GDB 4.0 with mi3
> and with GDB 5.0 with mi4
I don't see any problems with what you described. Am I missing
something?