From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cgd@sibyte.com (Chris G. Demetriou) To: mdejong@cygnus.com (Mo DeJong) Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Lets rename insight to "insight" (imagine that) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:01:00 -0000 Message-id: <5t7l63xsq8.fsf@highland.sibyte.com> References: <200011162320.PAA06418@scv3.apple.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00240.html mdejong@cygnus.com (Mo DeJong) writes: > You think there is no confusion involved in taking over the > name of a well known command and replacing it with the GUI > tool? While I would agree that shipping two versions of > gdb on a distro is none too good, it is better than > not including Insight because it conflicts with the > existing gdb install (which is our current situation). > There are also lots of folks that would want to install > Insight on an existing system. Do we tell those > folks it is not possible to install Insight unless > they first un-install the existing gdb RPM? Right, so, support the Right Thing but allow for the Not Right But Useful thing. 8-) By default, support the "Right Thing": gdb and insight both built and installed with the expected behaviour, and preferably only one single 'large' binary. Supply configure option so that people who can't tolerate the Right Thing (e.g. because they have a 'gdb' that they don't want to clobber) can disable the use of the 'gdb' name and use insight -nw if they really want that functionality. For orthogonality, maybe do the same thing and allow use of the 'insight' name to be disabled, requiring use of 'gdb -w' You say it isn't so hard to use "insight -nw" to get the non-windowed version of gdb-with-insight-windowing-extensions. It's not, but people expect to get gdb by typing "gdb." 8-) It sounds like i'm not the only one who's had to provide a local mechanism to allow both windowed and non-windowed versions to be accessed easily, with the default 'gdb' getting the 'normal' gdb behaviour, because of just this issue... chris