Re: GDB/MI snapshots between major release's

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:14:44AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:58:05 -0400
> > From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
> > 
> > OK, this is good news. So basically, even thought the MI version is
> > bumped it is still not official. Meaning, at that point, if I updated my
> > front end to be compatible with the new MI protocol version, there could
> > still be another incompatible change before the release. Meaning, I
> > would have to wait for the release to get the use out of that new
> > version. This is OK with me as long as,
> > 
> >    - I can have the --mi-protocols command line switch that tells me 
> >    what version of GDB/MI protocol is officially supported.
> > 
> >    - This command line switch only has MI protocols added to it when the 
> >    MI protocols become official ( for a release )
> 
> We could do that, but I still think an MI command is a better vehicle
> for such a feature.

I think using a command line switch makes sense.  You're going to have
to restart GDB to change MI protocols anyway, so why force the user to
go into MI?

I also like the idea of listing non-MI (which right now means annotate)
protocols in the same output.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz