From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
To: openmacnews@gmail.com
Cc: insight@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: how to link insight against 'external' TclTk frameworks on OSX
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44172CBE.4070108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441722D4.9060809@gmail.com>
OpenMacNews wrote:
>> insight is on its last legs, as it were.
>
> well THAT certainly caught my attention!
>
> care to clarify for a noob ? is it being replaced? just dying off? are
> all the developers quitting & opening scuba shops in the Dutch Antilles?
I'm just being blunt. There are no insight developers. I still do some
things -- mostly bug fixes and snapshots.
The FSF considers Insight *not* to have been donated to them by Cygnus
Solutions (acquired by Red Hat in 2000). So the copyrights on all the
insight sources are held by Red Hat, who I cannot convince to spend ten
minutes signing a letter indicating to the FSF that they consider the
sources part of gdb (and consequently, "owned" by the FSF).
So whenever I get a non-trivial patch (like the syntax highlighting one
several months ago), I must have the contributor sign a Red Hat
assignment (same form that is used by Cygwin). It makes life much more
challenging.
Nonetheless, I still try to use Insight for my work (when I'm not
working on eclipse or other pure-java work). Unfortunately, gdb is
really beginning to cause me problems. I've been unable to use it for
weeks on libgcj hacking, and I haven't had the time to diagnose the
(mostly thread-related) problems.
So it's not dead in the literal sense, but it is in a perpetual state of
maintenance, which (to me) is the same thing.
Keith
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-14 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-14 7:29 OpenMacNews
2006-03-14 8:30 ` Hermann-Simon Lichte
2006-03-14 8:37 ` OpenMacNews
2006-03-14 9:09 ` Hermann-Simon Lichte
2006-03-14 18:17 ` Dave Korn
2006-03-14 18:26 ` OpenMacNews
2006-03-14 18:44 ` Dave Korn
2006-03-14 19:14 ` Keith Seitz
2006-03-14 19:12 ` Keith Seitz
2006-03-14 20:09 ` OpenMacNews
2006-03-14 20:51 ` Keith Seitz [this message]
2006-03-14 23:00 ` OpenMacNews
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