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

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>]

> 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 It looks like gdba.el is a *very* old and outdated version of gud.el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).

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.