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Re: Gdb with Guile
- From: Kip Macy <kmacy at eventdriven dot org>
- To: Brian McQueen <bmcqueen at tmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:08:35 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Gdb with Guile
- References: <1096504520.17EBA60@g28.dngr.org>
With MI it is easy enough to interface with any language as well as
other applications such as GUIs. In-house I've got support for scripting
GDB with perl.
-Kip
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Brian McQueen wrote:
> I was wondering if you guys had considered linking guile in with gdb to
> provide the extension language functionality prior to going ahead with
> MI. With Guile it is very easy to add a lightweight, yet excellent
> extension language, and it is a complementary GNU project. I think it
> would be a fun project. That's why I'm asking - I'd like to do it
> myself. So I wonder if it was considered to be a bad idea. How did you
> arrive at MI1 and MI2? Being quite familiar with Guile, I think it
> would be a better choice.
>
> --bmcqueen
>