[www/RFA] Remove references to libgdb in GDB's web pages

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Fri Mar 27 15:55:00 GMT 2009


> I'm a bit unconfortable in making a piece of history just disappear.
> 
> Can't we instead remove "current" from the link, and say somewhere that
> this is not the path that GDB is now following?  Perhaps a short sensence
> below the link?

I can certainly do that. I'm not that uncomfortable because I think
it was a bad idea - bad idea for us due to the overhead of providing
a stable API, and also a bad idea (IMO) for the users, as it is much
more flexible to have the debugging module as a separate process
(if the process SEGVs, you don't die with it, of if there is a bug
in GDB you can switch to a newer version of GDB without changing
version of your tool, etc).

But perhaps you're right. I did certainly think at first that a libgdb
would be great. So it might be interesting to have a note on the website
explaining that this is no longer a current project. At least people
won't think that the idea is new and exciting.

Anway, will send a patch along what you propose ASAP. We can choose
whichever we prefer.

-- 
Joel



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