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Re: [PATCH 00/11] Cleanup deprecated_*_hooks in defs.h
- From: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com, Patrick Monnerat <Patrick dot Monnerat at datasphere dot ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:52:54 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Cleanup deprecated_*_hooks in defs.h
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On 2017-02-28 10:28, Tom Tromey wrote:
I don't know whether Insight is still supported or if being able to
build it is still worthwhile to gdb; but in the past this is why these
hooks weren't removed.
[CCing Patrick, maintainer of Insight]
AFAIK, we are doing a best effort of keeping Insight happy. I've
adapted some of my patches and Insight in the past to keep Insight
building, and it was not an effort of significant size (things like
changing a function signature).
However, I think we are in a weird position where we have some
deprecated features used by a program that we don't want to break, but
that will most likely not change to stop using these features. If we
want to exit that endless loop some day, I guess Insight should be
converted to use MI, like other frontends.