An Annotated Proposal

[Andrew Cagney]

> After a long discussion, and going through the mailing list archives,
> the cgdb development team concluded that we should start the
> implementation of a GDB/MI front-end that includes a full-fledged
> console.  We will attempt to work with other projects in order to build
> a general purpose library to this end. 

Thanks.

I've just posted the patche for implementing MI.  This will be committed 
tomorrow.  After that, I intend modifying the option parser so that it 
prints a warning indicating that level-two annotations are obsolete if 
--annotate=2 is specified on the command line.

The actual removal of annotate=2 support won't be scheduled until after 
the next release of GDB.  Current best guess on GDB 5.4/6.0 release date 
is Apr/May.

> In the mean time we ask that annotate=2 not be removed from the source.
> If it is removed, then there will be a release that cgdb potentially
> does not (and cannot) work with.  This might be especially true if we
> find critical bugs (in the MI code, for example) after 5.4 has been
> released.  Perhaps a large warning could be printed if anybody enables
> annotate=2.  
> 
> Ideally all annotations support would be removed at once so that all
> front-ends are guaranteed to be either using annotations or MI.  

Andrew