From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28954 invoked by alias); 16 May 2005 16:10:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25545 invoked from network); 16 May 2005 16:08:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 16 May 2005 16:08:38 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id E57A613C9F2; Mon, 16 May 2005 12:08:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:10:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Paul Schlie , insight@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Current Status of Insight Message-ID: <20050516160844.GI15318@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Schlie , insight@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 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