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Re: new potential task
- From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>
- To: archer at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:29:28 +0400
- Subject: Re: new potential task
- References: <m33alfcd8x.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
Tom Tromey wrote:
> A couple folks have remarked to me off-line that we don't talk about
> MI much on the archer list.
>
> And, since Eclipse support is one of our major goals, we definitely
> need to be thinking about MI. Not having this on our list was a big
> oversight! Whoops.
>
> So, the addition to our task list is looking into notable MI problems
> and fixing them. For the estimation phase I think this would mean
> talking to Eclipse developers (and possibly other GUI developers),
> looking in Eclipse bugzilla, gdb gnats, etc, and trying to see what is
> important enough to fix (and coming up with a set of criteria to help
> decide this).
>
> FWIW a tricky thing here is not diverging too much from main-line gdb.
> I think it would be preferable not to do this too much, if at all.
>
> We can talk volunteers on Wednesday :)
Well, my personal list of MI issues is at:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg47664p_8gdmz4q&hl=en
and most of them have relation to C++. Some are hard, so help is always
welcome.
- Volodya