Re: GDB 7.1 release planning...

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> The filtered backtrace work is not fully baked yet.  We know it is still
>> missing some needed features, at least.

Joel> Is this important enough that we want to make it a priority? Do we
Joel> know which pieces need some work.

I'd say it is the second-most-used Python-based feature.

There are a few bug reports about the replacement for "bt" (this written
entirely in Python).  It doesn't always do what users need.  The details
are in the list archives, I can dig them up if anybody is interested in
working on this.

Also, it doesn't work with MI.

So, while I think it is a worthwhile feature, it needs enough work that
I don't think we should wait for it for 7.1.

Joel> On a side note, what about the Google SoC work? I think it was about
Joel> inferior-events, right? I tried to look at it a few weeks ago, out
Joel> of curiosity, but couldn't find which branch it is a part of? Does
Joel> anyone know? How far are we from being able to submit the code for
Joel> inclusion in the FSF tree? I don't want us to press this feature for
Joel> 7.1, but it'd be nice to not lose all this work. I volunteer to
Joel> clean it up later this year.

I thought it was on a branch in archer, but I don't see it right now.

The author posted a patch series to the archer list.  I had a number of
comments, which nobody has addressed yet.  So, I think it is promising
but not ready to go in.

Right now most of our Python work is in fixing bugs in pretty printing.
I'd like us to get back to implementing new features, and I think that
will happen sometime, but we have a lot of things going on and so it is
hard to say exactly when.

Tom