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Re: [RFA] Re: [RFC][patch 1/9] initial Python support


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 05:24:30PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Daniel> I think that these are now "gdb commands", effectively.  So, sorry,
> Daniel> but there's a bit more documentation you get to write :-)  No new
> Daniel> undocumented public interfaces.
> 
> So, you mean, document the Python API in the manual?  Or more info in
> the doc strings here?  (I assume the former.)

The former.  I don't know how much technical complexity it's worth to
keep the doc strings and manual in sync, but the manual is pretty
important.

> So, truly critical python code should just be included directly; but
> at the same time the amount of critical code should be kept to a
> minimum.

I agree.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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