labath added a comment.

In D95712#2566203 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D95712#2566203>, @JDevlieghere 
wrote:

> In D95712#2563091 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D95712#2563091>, @labath wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately I don't have the bandwidth to review this, though I feel that 
>> this should have a wider discussion, given that its destined to become a 
>> pretty big chunk of our public immutable api surface.
>
> When @mib and I discussed this offline, the idea was to start with an 
> interface that matches the C++ class and iterate on it as we gain more 
> experience through different use cases. Initially those uses cases consist of 
> core file debugging with a scripted process and using it to write tests for 
> things that have historically hard to test (@jasonmolenda has a better idea 
> of what these are). Long term the scriptable process plugin would be like the 
> OS plugins on steroids and would probably superseed them. I expect the XNU 
> people (who are currently the main users of the OS plugins) to have valuable 
> input on the interface as well. Until then the interface shouldn't be 
> considered stable.
>
> @mib Can you please add a disclaimed to the base class saying that the 
> interface is subject to change?

Making the api flexible alleviates a lot of my concerns. Thanks.


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