From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24980 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2006 23:00:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 24961 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Mar 2006 23:00:21 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.206) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:00:20 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id n1so1731551nzf for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.96.5 with SMTP id t5mr193213qbb; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.30.11.6? ( [70.231.29.225]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id a29sm908049qbd.2006.03.14.15.00.16; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:00:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <44174AA6.6040609@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:00:00 -0000 From: OpenMacNews Reply-To: openmacnews@gmail.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Seitz CC: insight@sourceware.org Subject: Re: how to link insight against 'external' TclTk frameworks on OSX References: <441670B5.3070907@gmail.com> <44171586.3080001@redhat.com> <441722D4.9060809@gmail.com> <44172CBE.4070108@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <44172CBE.4070108@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00097.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 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 - -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email, vCards / \ & micro$oft attachments [GPG] OpenMacNews at gmail dot com fingerprint: 50C9 1C46 2F8F DE42 2EDB D460 95F7 DDBD 3671 08C6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iEYEAREDAAYFAkQXSqYACgkQlffdvTZxCMYw3ACZAcqFj4Lp+zuzL378K7WrzP9K SN8AoJ0COUvrO67j6cDXE8X/PvM1dVUG =mtHt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----