MI -break-info command issues

Bob Rossi bob@brasko.net
Fri Jan 27 17:00:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:09:56PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> >> The problem with existing frontends can probably be solved by posting a
> >> prominent message to mailing list whenever MI output is going to change.
> >> Or using versioning.
> > 
> > This has been discussed before plenty of times.  We will make
> > incompatible changes to MI from time to time; but IMO that doesn't
> > justify making _unnecessary_ incompatible changes.
> > 
> > Like Bob, I wouldn't have added the fields.  But since they are
> > present, I see no reason to remove them.
> 
> Ok, understood. It would be good, though, if MI docs contained some
> introduction chapter that would state this policy. That'd prevented this
> thread from ever starting.

Hi Volodya,

It would be great if you could come up with some text that described the
problem. We could improve it here, and then add it to the manual.

Bob Rossi



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