Re: GDB/XMI (XML Machine Interface)

[Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:09:25AM -0700, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> On Aug 19, 2004, at 4:49 PM, Bob Rossi wrote:
> <whack>
> >
> >Chris F suggested,
> >   He defiantly didn't see the benefit to switching to XMI, since XML 
> >is harder
> >   for him to understand than MI output.
> 
> That's uncharitable, try:
>    Didn't see a big benefit in using one structured data format over 
> the other. All things being equal, finds pages of MI easier to read 
> than the order of magnitude longer output that XML would be.

I'm sorry, I worded that bad, didn't I? I did not mean "understand" as
in comprehend, anyways, thanks for correcting me.

> >I don't really know where to go from here. The XML change I think is a 
> >no brainer.
> <snip>
> >
> >Finally, the difference between a text based protocol and a libgdb 
> >interface is irrelevant
> >to me. I would personally prefer the text based protocol at this point 
> >in time seeing that
> >there is no libgdb. What stopped the production of that effort?
> 
> Did license issues prevent adoption? I know that would likely keep me 
> from being able to use a libgdb. Yeah, yeah dry your eyes. ;-)

Good point.

Bob Rossi