Convenience functions

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

Thiago> The upside is that this will help focus the python submissions to
Thiago> enabling a useful functionality as soon as possible. The downside (or
Thiago> maybe it's not a downside at all) is that a scope checking feature is
Thiago> being asked by users, so it would mean that such python script would
Thiago> preferably be shipped in GDB releases...

Daniel> Yes - we've got to get the mechanism to do that in place anyway.

If you mean the "shipping python script" functionality, I'm hoping to
piggyback on the part of Sérgio's syscall work that deal with datadir.

Thiago, just FYI, this is one patch we may have to pull from trunk to
the python branch.

Tom