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

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>]

OpenMacNews wrote:
> > insight is on its last legs, as it were.
>
> well THAT certainly caught my attention!
>
> 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.

Keith