From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29820 invoked by alias); 3 May 2010 18:58:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 29809 invoked by uid 22791); 3 May 2010 18:58:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-173-76-55-5.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (173.76.55.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 May 2010 18:58:16 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD94B13C061 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 14:58:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id D91A32B352; Mon, 3 May 2010 14:58:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 18:58:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: insight@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Insight development? Message-ID: <20100503185814.GA5673@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: insight@sourceware.org References: <4BDEFC92.5050505@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BDEFC92.5050505@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-q2/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 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