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Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:01:18 -0800
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: tromey@redhat.com, bauerman@br.ibm.com, drow@false.org, pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > > Perhaps, but I believe that it makes the feature much much less useful
> > > that it would be.
> >
> > I think that's a heck of exaggeration. We are talking about adding a
> > single line.
>
> I could return the "heck of exaggeration" back by saying that we're only
> talking about the highly improbably GDB scripts whose name uses a standard
> Python extension.
Yes, but I didn't say that makes the feature "much less useful". I
just said that I didn't like the incompatibility.