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Re: [Commit] New file
> The situation I fear is that the latest gdb-mi.el will not work with a
> recent Emacs release. We already had that with gdba.el, remember?
Sure, it will be difficult to keep everything in sync but I think that if you
note the similarities between gdb-mi.el to gdba.el it is also important to
note the differences. Unlike you, I don't have the benefit of first hand
experience but this is what I have inferred. gdba.el was written by Tom Lord
and Jim Kingdon (both then at Cygnus) and was based on a very early version of
gud.el which, in turn, was written by Eric Raymond and modified by others. As
far as I can see, there was no communication between the original two parties,
and those Emacs developers either did not know about level 2 annotations or
chose not to use them. So could gdba.el could be called a fork. That is not
the intention with gdb-mi.el, indeed the reverse is true, it is trying to pull
things together.
Nick