Re: obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> I would like to reiterate the points that many have made thus far.
Sorry, not that many.  A few have expressed concerns but I believe that 
those concerns have been addressed.

> Existing applications depend on annotate level 1 (ddd, gvd, ...) and 
> level 2 (emacs, cgdb).
All released versions of EMACS use level-one annotations.  Only an 
unreleased development uses level-two.  Plans are underway to migrate 
that away from level-two.

>  Until the MI interface is complete (supports 
> CLI and GDB user output) and all existing applications have made 

> the switch to using the MI, the annotations cannot be removed.  
> My current understanding is that GDB/MI is not a completely viable 
> alternative for these GDB interfaces to use to replace annotate 1 or 
> 2.  Therefore, the annotations -- while being deprecated -- must be 
> retained in future releases until the GDB/MI is capable of 
> supporting these applications.
The changes are sitting on the:
	interps-20030201-branch
I've just reviewed and cleaned them up - now pass without regressions. 
So commit is tomorrow.

Andrew