Insight development?

Insight development?

[Ricard Wanderlof]

Hi,

It seems that not much has happened with Insight lately - the latest news 
on the Insight home page (http://sourceware.org/insight/) is about 6.8-1 
from July last year. Has development of Insight stopped completely, or are 
people just busy with other things?

kind regards,

/Ricard W.
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Ricard Wolf Wanderlöf                           ricardw(at)axis.com
Axis Communications AB, Lund, Sweden            www.axis.com
Phone +46 46 272 2016                           Fax +46 46 13 61 30

Re: Insight development?

[Keith Seitz]

On 05/03/2010 05:35 AM, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:

> It seems that not much has happened with Insight lately - the latest
> news on the Insight home page (http://sourceware.org/insight/) is about
> 6.8-1 from July last year. Has development of Insight stopped
> completely, or are people just busy with other things?

Active development has pretty much stopped entirely. As far as I know, I 
am the only person still actively trying to keep insight crawling along 
-- largely because I still use it daily for my work.

Occasionally a gdb person will check in a patch for some API change that 
is made upstream, but those people are very few.

Releases get done very sporadically. I've been sitting on a configury 
patch for x86_64 for some time. Since I am now migrating to an x86_64 
box, I can actually now test this stuff! [And there have been numerous 
problems reported with x86_64.]

And in general, I have been very busy with my personal interests, so 
it's a real effort to do much more than keep it working sufficiently for 
my needs.

I've thought about rewriting from scratch, but there are several 
competing projects out there like nemevier that require consideration 
first. Perhaps I will just jump ship and work one of those.

Keith

Re: Insight development?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Keith Seitz wrote:
>On 05/03/2010 05:35 AM, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
>
>> It seems that not much has happened with Insight lately - the latest
>> news on the Insight home page (http://sourceware.org/insight/) is about
>> 6.8-1 from July last year. Has development of Insight stopped
>> completely, or are people just busy with other things?
>
>Active development has pretty much stopped entirely. As far as I know, I 
>am the only person still actively trying to keep insight crawling along 
>-- largely because I still use it daily for my work.
>
>Occasionally a gdb person will check in a patch for some API change that 
>is made upstream, but those people are very few.
>
>Releases get done very sporadically. I've been sitting on a configury 
>patch for x86_64 for some time. Since I am now migrating to an x86_64 
>box, I can actually now test this stuff! [And there have been numerous 
>problems reported with x86_64.]
>
>And in general, I have been very busy with my personal interests, so 
>it's a real effort to do much more than keep it working sufficiently for 
>my needs.
>
>I've thought about rewriting from scratch, but there are several 
>competing projects out there like nemevier that require consideration 
>first. Perhaps I will just jump ship and work one of those.

As you know, I've been wondering what to do about the cygwin insight
version.  This has caused me to stall the release of a new version of
gdb for cygwin.

If you have a project that you think is worthwhile, like nemiver, or
kdevelop, or...  I think it's time for me to start EOLing cygwin
insight.

I know that one of these projects would really benefit from your...

wait for it...

insight.

cgf

Re: Re: Insight development?

[Johan]

Hi

Keith Seitz wrote:
>
> Active development has pretty much stopped entirely. As far as I know,
> I am the only person still actively trying to keep insight crawling
> along -- largely because I still use it daily for my work.
>
> Keith
>
It sounds like a troublesome situation,
and since I'm using it as a nice frontend for OpenOCD (arm jtag to gdb
server).
I hate to see it die.

Maybe it could be easier to get people to give a helping hand if the code
was more accessible? I thinking cvs vs. git/subversion question?

Maybe it is a good idea to start to use something like github.com?

By the way, how dependent on cvs is this project?
(Is there a lot of magic happening on the cvs-server?)

BR
Johan