[Python-Dev] Enhancement to pdb in gud.el (original) (raw)

Brett C. bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Sat Sep 20 20:27:34 EDT 2003

Nick Roberts wrote:

> However, what is the fallback behavior when emacs with the new gud.el > encounters a pdb.py that doesn't have the patch? That is, will users of > existing versions of python lose any functionality?

The messages from clear, enable and disable will be new, so the existing behaviour will hold for existing versions of python. However, the message from break (and tbreak) will not have changed, but the way gud.el acts on it will. So, break will place a breakpoint icon that clear can't remove. However, these changes will go on the main trunk of the CVS version of Emacs which is unlikely to be released this year. Emacs development is relatively slow and the last non-bugfix release was Sepember 2001 (21.1). How often are new versions of Python released? Providing the next release of Python is before that of Emacs, I dont think there's a problem.

The frequency of Python releases is actually being debated as of this moment. Some have suggested having a release once a year (which seems to be winning unanimous support). If we stick with the old way (I couldn't count on it) then who knows; probably year to a year and a half.

As for this thread, is this the proper place for this? Wouldn't on the python-mode mailing list (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode) be a better place for Emacs-related stuff? Or is my Vim bias influencing me too much?

-Brett

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