Re: how to link insight against 'external' TclTk frameworks on OSX

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keith,

>> 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.

well said.  i *do* appreciate the candor!

and, i agree, given the state of affairs, not a reliable bet ...
especially in a world that is not (gasp!) 100% redhat ;-)

cheers,

richard

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