Re: MI handshaking

[Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>]

On Jan 4, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Bob Rossi wrote:

> > I've been very busy, so sorry about the delay.
> >
> > I'll look into what we discussed here and come up with something that
> > fits all the new needs. Does Jim care about any of this?

I didn't see this question in the original note.  The answer is we 
always ship the Developer Tools as a whole package, which includes 
Xcode & gdb, and just ask for the mi version we know it supports 
explicitly.  We don't support taking one version of gdb & using it 
under an older or newer version of Xcode.  I don't see any plans for us 
to separate the two in the forseeable future.  So while I do care about 
this in an abstract sort of way, I can't see us using it.


> Sorry about the delay.
>
> I plan on getting at least this patch into GDB. So, to recap, I neede 
> to add
> a new mi-command that would output all of the info discovered during 
> the
> handshaking phase. Is there anything else that needs to be added?

Xcode does use the "does this command exist" mi command Jason mentioned 
in a few places.  This was more for the convenience of the Xcode 
developers - so they could ask me to implement a command, then sketch 
out the implementation right away without having to wait for me to 
implement it.  That is the level of handshaking that we do.

Jim