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Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, brobecker at adacore dot com, bauerman at br dot ibm dot com, pedro at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:08:06 +0200
Subject: Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
References: <200902100000.22671.pedro@codesourcery.com> <m3fxinulmj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <200902100235.59897.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20090210034834.GA20077@caradoc.them.org> <u1vu6skij.fsf@gnu.org> <1234267091.13871.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <m3d4dqtect.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20090211060911.GB4225@adacore.com> <m3ljscoitw.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <uljscybbn.fsf@gnu.org> <20090211204249.GA9762@caradoc.them.org>
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>

> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:42:49 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, brobecker@adacore.com,
> 	bauerman@br.ibm.com, pedro@codesourcery.com,
> 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:21:00PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Considering that this is the only alternative proposed so far that has
> > the most chances to be accepted, and that it is 100% backwards
> > compatible, perhaps you could reconsider.
> 
> I've been successfully convinced that this would be a bad idea.
> 
> Could you explain why you think GDB should try to parse files
> with Python extensions as CLI scripts?  I can't think of any
> case where this would be useful.

I already explained that.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

References:
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Pedro Alves
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Pedro Alves
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Thiago Jung Bauermann
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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