Summer of Code 2009: Emacs project suggestion

[Nick Roberts]

Hi,

It's probably early days but, assuming GNU will participate in Google's
Summer of Code 2009, I would like to suggect the project below for Emacs.
I have contacted the Emacs maintainers on address@hidden and they
are agreeable to the idea.  I am willing to act as project mentor.

Nick

Emacs
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To migrate the GDB graphical interface in Emacs to completely use GDB/MI (GDB's
Machine Interface).  Currently the underlying lisp package, gdb-ui.el, uses a
mixture of annotations and GDB/MI to interact with GDB.  Annotations are being
deprecated and GDB/MI provides a more robust interface, as well as supporting
the new features of GDB.  There is currently a package called gdb-mi available
from the Emacs Lisp Package Archive (http://tromey.com/elpa) that fully uses
GDB/MI but does not have all the features of gdb-ui.el.  It could be used as a
starting point and, if the project is successful, it is anticipated that the
resulting code would replace gdb-ui.el after the release of Emacs 23.1.  See
http://users.snap.net.nz/~nickrob/ or post to address@hidden for more
information.