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Re: removing bushdb related code in gud.el
From: |
Nick Roberts |
Subject: |
Re: removing bushdb related code in gud.el |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:01:05 +1300 |
> We(Rocky, the author of bashdb and I, a contributor) would like to
> remove bashdb related code in gud.el.
You would need to remove references in the manual too.
> Bashdb has been improved/changed its output.
> As the result we have to update bashdb related code in gud.el; the
> version of bashdb and bashdb related code in gud.el must be
> synced. This is not problem during emacs development stage.
> I'm quite happy to work on such task.
>
> However, once new version of emacs is released. The code
> synchronization task is out of my hand; even if I update the code in
> Savannah's repository, users may use released version of emacs and
> gud.el bundled to it.
>
> To avoid users' confusion, we'd like to move bashdb related code(bashdb.el)
> in gud.el to bashdb itself. So we can provide well updated bashdb.el in
> bashdb release.
>
> Any objection?
I guess if bashdb.el is always distributed with bash, and users know how to
put it in their load-path, then this makes sense. New releases of Emacs might
break functionality but they will surely be less frequent than releases of
Bash.
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Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob