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Re: GDB interface: MI versus API or ??
Keith Seitz wrote:
Rick Moseley wrote:
To me those responses pretty much indicated that the CDT developers do
not see MI as a limiter.
My thoughts exactly.
Is that really true, though? Do they have any other choice but gdb/MI?
The responses sound more like they welcome a "better"/enhanced
debugger backend (who wouldn't), but they've got a good, mature
product and plenty of other work to do, too. So MI is "good enough".
We shouldn't confuse "good" with "good enough". But perhaps the cynic
is me needs to be beaten into submission again.
That's my read too. Just because they have MI and it works, does it mean
that it could be improved on? Bettered? But unless we come up with a
better way, then automatically we're just quoting optimistic theory over
actual implementation. To be honest, I think eventually whatever we
come up with, if it is not improving GDB, we'll end up at last emulating
an MI interface. Just because everything uses it already.
Regards
Phil