From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31019 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2012 09:06:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 31010 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jan 2012 09:06:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (HELO smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl) (194.109.24.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:06:16 +0000 Received: from webmail.xs4all.nl (dovemail19.xs4all.nl [194.109.26.21]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q0B95mJA015522; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:05:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl) Received: from 62.48.30.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sibelius) by webmail.xs4all.nl with HTTP; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:05:49 +0100 Message-ID: <0ea813fb91e432223fffab25cc01b9c7.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20120111030958.GD31383@adacore.com> References: <20120109032350.GJ2716@adacore.com> <201201102031.11161.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120111030958.GD31383@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:48:00 -0000 Subject: Re: GDB and Guile From: "Mark Kettenis" To: "Joel Brobecker" Cc: "Mike Frysinger" , gdb-patches@sourceware.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00345.txt.bz2 > > i know the request/announce doesn't say it would, but i hope that > > gaining Guile support wouldn't affect existing python support > > I can confirm that Python support will not be affected. But I'd say that, given the limited resources we have, supporting two extension languages is undesirable. Let's face it, Guile support is something that Stallman wants, but probably not a lot of other people. Now if somebody steps up to do the work and is motivated enough to build a community to support it (like what happened with Python support) we should of course seriously consider integrating that work. But if somebody wants to do this just because Stallman says so, I think we shouldn't encourage him/her.