Re: Current Status of Insight

[Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>]

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:13:42PM -0400, Paul Schlie wrote:
>>> But what Java does not have - is a command line it is
>>> compiled langauge Tcl/Tk - it is some what enherent.
>>
>> Well, something similar could be implemented in Java with BeanShell
>> (http://www.beanshell.org/). jEdit uses this.
>
>It seems a lot simpler to simply encourage Insight/GDB as it present stands,
>to be officially (or even semi-officially) considered as part of the GDB
>release, and maintained as interest allows along side if it; and remain
>complemented with the separately maintained TK/TCL library etc. as may be
>necessary in parallel; similar to the way it is now, but without the sigma
>of "it's dead" lying over it's head.

The project is only "dead" because no one is actively caring for it.
Making it part of gdb does not mean that someone will magically appear
to keep it alive.  You still need people to do that.

We CAN fix this.  All that we need are volunteers to keep insight
healthy.  While it would be nice to have insight officially part of gdb,
it has managed to survive fairly well for a long time in its present
state.

This is FREE SOFTWARE we're talking about.  There is no reason for anything
to die when the source code is available as long as people are actively
interested in maintaining it.

cgf