Re: [patch] gdba.el: Fix a typo.

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:32:40 -0700
> > From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> >
> > > It looks like gdba.el is a *very* old and outdated version of gud.el
> > > that is part of the standard Emacs distribution.  Why do we need to
> > > keep gdba.el in GDB?
> >
> > Ok,
> >
> > Kazu, can you instead check in a patch that marks the file ``OBSOLETE''
> > (Don't forget to mention it the NEWS file). (Your free to also fix the
> > typos).
> > Eli, does the doco refer to this file at all?
> 
> The ony files in the entire GDB distro where gdba.el is mentioned are
> ChangeLog-94, README, and NEWS.
> 
> However, it turns out that I didn't see the whole story in gdba.el: it
> is indeed based on a very old version of gud.el, but it uses the
> annotations to communicate with GDB (as opposed to the --fullname
> method used by gud.el).

While existing GUD.el's might be using --fullname they are also,
unfortunatly, setting the annotation level to one.  I'll delete gdba.el
from the GDB distro since it is dangerously out-of-date.

(And the annotation code lives to fight another day :-)

	Andrew


> So I'm not sure how to proceed.  In general, since the gud base of
> gdba.el is so old, it's quite possible that gdba.el will not even work
> with the current versions of Emacs.  If anyone is using gdba.el, the
> best alternative would be to re-port the annotations support to the
> current development sources of gud.el and submit the patches to the
> Emacs maintainers.
> 
> If nobody uses gdba, I think we should mark it OBSOLETE.