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Re: GDB is the GNU project's native debugger
- From: Steven Johnson <sjohnson at neurizon dot net>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:58:51 +1000
- Subject: Re: GDB is the GNU project's native debugger
- References: <419A2E2F.5010602@gnu.org>
Andrew Cagney wrote:
GDB is the GNU project's native debuger. While we're certainly happy
to accomodate people using GDB as either an embedded debugger or
native debugger on other systems, the need to persue GDB as a native
debugger on GNU systems must be our first priority.
Do we all agree with this?
My 2c.
The statement doesnt mean anything.
As the code in GDB is developed by the donations of people, in either
time or money to companies who spend time. The "primary" focus of GDB
will always be the focus of the majority of "donators/contributors" at
any one time, and will change over time, as the groups "majority" need
changes.
The (flavour of Open Source) licence is largely irrelevent, except to
the point that it allows people to feel (more or less) comfortable in
donating their time to a "common good".
So no, i dont agree with this statement.
I would agree with a statement that said "the majority of people (at the
current time) who use GDB are debugging programs compiled with GCC".
After that, if tomorrow we get 1000 developers donating their time to
support Windows XP native debugging of Visual C++, thats going to be the
"priority" because they will swamp (by their needs and the level of
their donation at the current time) the needs and level of donation of
all others combined. And we as a group should be thankful for that,
because it is unlikely that all that work will only be useful for one
target platform, so even if it doesnt advance the philosophical war, it
certainly advances the tool which we all use.
Andrew, Can you illuminate us as to why this "philosophical" debat has
been raised? What problem are you trying to solve or prevent?
My belief is one of the pleasures of the GDB community is the lack of
this sort of largely pointless debate.
Steven