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Re: [RFC][patch 3/9] export hooks mechanism to Python

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at br dot ibm dot com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:37:41 -0400
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 3/9] export hooks mechanism to Python
References: <20080615183110.xi9zc6qx2iokwwsg@imap.linux.ibm.com> <m33anenx7c.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20080616014219.GA9913@caradoc.them.org> <20080617121342.k0o647casks4w4c4@imap.linux.ibm.com>

> Observers look like a useful feature in GDB to be used by scripts,
> IMHO we should think about ways to make it available to python, and consider
> turning it into a stable exported interface...

Exposing some events to Python sounds pretty reasonable, but I also
prefer if we did not expose the observers directly, for the reasons
that Daniel explained. The event at the Python would be very well
defined and (hopefully) stable while we are free to modify the observers.

-- 
Joel

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