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Re: MI and backwards compatibility


On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 06:23:08PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:25:17 -0400
> > From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> > 
> > So, here is an example that I don't see to far fetched within the next
> > few years. The question is, what does backwards compatibility mean?
> > This is what I expect,
> > 
> > FE 1.0 or after to never work with GDB 1.0
> > FE 1.0 to work with GDB 2.0 on using mi2.
> > FE 2.0 to work with GDB 2.0 and 3.0 using mi2
> >            and with GDB 4.0 on with mi3
> > FE 3.0 to work with GDB 2.0 and 3.0 using mi2
> >            and with GDB 4.0 with mi3
> >            and with GDB 5.0 with mi4
> 
> I don't see any problems with what you described.  Am I missing
> something?

Are you saying that the goal of GDB is to be backwards compatible with
old MI protocols? That is a simple question that i am asking.

If so, I need the documentation of all of these protocols. I need to
know how to implement an MI1 protocol, MI2 protocol, ...

Thanks,
Bob Rossi


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