From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7103 invoked by alias); 25 Jun 2014 10:43:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 7091 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jun 2014 10:43:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail.datasphere.ch Received: from mail.datasphere.ch (HELO mail.datasphere.ch) (195.70.3.149) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:43:28 +0000 Received: from dataspheresrv01.datasphere.ch (ForestDnsZones.datasphere.ch [195.70.3.151]) by mail.datasphere.ch (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s5PAh95W000449; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:43:14 +0200 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Is the project still alive ? Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:43:00 -0000 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <53AA61BB.304@onevision.com> References: <53AA61BB.304@onevision.com> From: "Patrick Monnerat" To: "Roland Schwingel" , X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-q2/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 =20 Roland Schwingel wrote: > I am using insight daily on windows (with tcl/tk 8.6 and still itcl/itk 3.3) in a mingw-build (so native GUI). It runs quite well. I'm sure it does. But I have to stick to Fedora policies that states bundles are not aceptable in the distribution, therefore the stock itcl/itk (4.0) must then be used. > I am very sad about the stall of insight. I would find a big disadvantage if it would go away completely. Totally agreed. But we are dependent of the insight "core team" (?) that, IMHO mainly consists in Keith (as an auxiliary job), with the help of some contributions like yours and mine. I have to say I don't have enough time and skills to maintain insight seriously: I've spent several days in the last month to try to make it work with the F21 constraints... without success. Bugs might be in itcl/itk, but debugging this stuff is really a pain in the ass :-( > I hope a solution can be found for this. Me too, of course ! On a practical standpoint, the Fedora pressure for an update is so high I wouldn't stand it long: the solution (un-stall of the project) should be quick now. > If the official end of the project would be announced the interfaces in gdb itself to allow insight to connect to gdb would be removed quite soon - I believe. Making it impossible for people like me to build insight against current gdb sources. A stalled project is a dead project!... even if not official :-( > Insight must not die! Again, 100% OK with you. Nevertheless, this is not in my hands (and if it were, I'll be much puzzled). If some developer wants to investigate, I can give some info about what I already found. I'll monitor this list and the CVS/git repositories the next 2 weeks: if nothing constructive happens, I'll resign and EOL the Fedora package :-( Thanks for your reply. Cheers, Patrick