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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 11:18:13 -0500 From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> GDB development is part of the GNU Project. The maintainer of GDB is suppose to work for the benefit of the GNU Project. Developing the GNU system (including GNU/Linux systems) is a central focus of the GNU Project. On the EGCS Project (also hosted by Cygnus), we are making extra efforts to support GNU/Linux's needs and requirements. It sounds like a similar effort is needed for GDB. The GDB situation is a little different. For a long time, both GCC and GDB followed the "cathedral" model of development, with a smaller number of hackers operating in a more controlled environment. This wasn't working well for GCC, and the contention over this resulted in the EGCS revolution. Up until recently, there weren't as many people interested in GDB, so the old model has continued along uncontested. However, I'm seeing that the cathedral model will break down for GDB as well, hurried along by the needs of the free OSes, so I'd like to have an evolution instead of a revolution. Old habits are hard to change, so things won't all be different overnight. Even so, I believe that if GDB development is forked a la EGCS, we will have failed as maintainers, and I'm very keen to prevent that from happening. Stan