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Re: [Various] obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface


I don't know about you, but if my project was in this situtation I'd be doing everything possible to move away from annotations and towards MI.

We're not going to drop annotations anytime soon, since supporting older
versions of gdb is important.

So in any case, we're talking about supporting *both* annotations and MI.

Since as I stated in a previous message, MI has currently known limitations and
drawbacks, I'm sure you'll agree that if you were in our situation, you
would hesitate adding support for MI at this stage, and would rather wait
for things to stabilize.
Honestly? No. MI has `kick ass' features sufficent to justify the move now:

the varobj - which makes it possible for the IDE to provide good interactive performance
a real syntax - which frees the ide from CLI stupidity such as ``(gdb) set x = expression''.

Andrew



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