Re: Bob's MI objective

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:32:43 -0400
> From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> 
> >    * I would like to know what GDB's policy is in regards to supporting old
> >      MI protocols.  ( I have received several opposing views on this )
> 
> A new way to phrase this would be, for a given release of GDB (not a CVS
> snapshot), does that release support one MI protocol, or does it support
> several MI protocols. The MI protocols need to be tested and stable.

The answer to this is that, although the latest stable MI version is
probably the most stable version to rely upon, the old MI versions are
also supported to the degree that there are tests in the test suite
that exercise them.  For example, currently there are tests for mi1
although the latest MI version is mi2.

Of course, bugs in MI versions other than the latest will probably not
be corrected.

> >    * I would like to ensure that my front end works well with snapshots
> >      of GDB. I do not want to work with the MI development protocol, I
> >      just want to work with the last officially supported protocol.
> 
> For CVS snapshots, does GDB only support (tested) the development MI
> protocol? or does it support the last stable protocol? or does it
> support multiple stable protocols?

Again, the answer is that the support guarantee is the same for the
CVS versions: whatever the test suite exercises is supported to the
same degree.