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Re: [PATCH 1/3] MI: fix the result of -break-insert with multiple locations


On 08.03.2013 01:15, André Pönitz wrote:
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:43:41PM +0000, Marc Khouzam wrote:
How does the non-affectedness of a specific frontend matter
in that context? Are there first and second class citizens
when it comes to gdb frontends?

I think it may simply be that Mircea is not familiar with the frontend landscape. Eclipse is not the only frontend that uses MI to control GDB. Andre takes care of another such frontend (I apologize but its names escapes me right at this moment).

Nevermind. Happens to me, too...


Normally, MI changes should be backwards compatible (even
if they are fixing something broken).  I have seen that for difficult
changes, exceptions were made as long as no one mentioned
the change broke a frontend.  This is not the case here.

I have changed my side to transparently parse either result now.

Thanks!


Nevertheless, it would be nice if the application of the patch could be
delayed by a couple of weeks to keep the time window small where people
might use a newer gdb with an older version of said frontend.
That'd not exactly be vital, just - nice.

The patch as RFC was posted in January. The current version is ten days old. Eclipse doesn't care, your fronted can now parse this and I have not seen any comments from other frontend maintainers. Given this, would it OK to apply this _today_? Tommorow the 7.6 branch will be cut off.


Thanks,
Mircea


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