Re: Current Status of Insight

[Steven Johnson <sjohnson@sakuraindustries.com>]

Hi Keith,

Thanks for the informative reply.  I suppose the question is (and this 
is the right place to ask it):

1. What do the user's of Insight think about this? Is it worth it? Does 
anyone really care anymore?

>At one time I considered branching, dumping all the Tcl code (assigned
>to Red Hat) and rewriting in some form of gtk (all new code assigned to
>FSF). I don't believe there is enough interest to justify this work,
>though.
>  
>

2. Is there enough interest to do what you say, and attempt to create an 
insight derivitave, that is assignable to the FSF?  (Not suggesting 
Keith do it, just gauging the interest, if it is there, then there 
should be people willing to contribute to the effort (money or time or 
both).)

>DDD, Eclipse CDT, xgdb (and friends) are all still options.
>
Yes they are, ive tried to use them, and even though they have some nice 
fancy features, they just lack basic usability.  I keep finding myself 
wishing they were more like Insight.  But that could just be my simple 
brain.  And for what its worth ive never found the MI or CL Tack a front 
end over the top approach to be (a) very effective, or (b) very 
reliable.  I much prefered how Insight really just linked with GDB and 
went from there.  There is a maintained TUI in GDB, so I cant see why 
there shouldnt be a maintained GUI in GDB either.

So what your really saying (if i understand your post), is the main 
impediment to breathing new life into insight (apart from re-writing 
large chunks) is a standard FSF assignment.  Sheesh, i think that is 
really weak for RedHat's part, given everything they have made out of 
the work of the FSF and the GNU Licence.  How hard is it to just sign it 
over, they obviously dont give two tosses about it, so whats the big 
deal. (But i Digress).

I am sadened by this state of affairs, because I believe Insight was a 
really great part of GDB.

Steven Johnson