Re: DUEL support

[Sergei Golubchik <sergii@pisem.net>]

Hi!

On Nov 18, Jim Blandy wrote:
> Sergei Golubchik <sergii at pisem.net> writes:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Is there an interest in having DUEL support in GDB ?
> >
> > DUEL is a high-level data exploring language, originally written as a
> > gdb patch in 1993, for a PhD project.
> >
> > Apparently, forgotten and abandoned since then, although it made into
> > dbx on irix (looks like SGI simply applied it, as the patch is public
> > domain) - that's where I first saw the feature.
> >
> > I found that patch yesterday, ported to 6.6, fixed a few bugs (added
> > support for bool, long long, typedefs, references, fixed type parsing,
> > etc). Looks like working.  I didn't spend too much time on it though,
> > the patch definitely needs polishing.
> >
> > Anybody's interested ?
> 
> DUEL is insanely cool, but last I knew, its author was very hostile to
> the GPL, and refused to assign his changes to the FSF.

Yes, according to the "GPL vs. public domain" file in the distribution
he was (though it was in 1993). But why would it matter, he explicitly
put his patch under public domain ?
 
Regards / Mit vielen Grüssen,
Sergei

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