From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lldb support
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:54:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161111195432.237605f4@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1c50bi-0003OQ-6b@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:26:18 -0500 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
wrote:
> > > Why would we want to support it
> > > rather than saying, "We support GDB -- use that."?
>
> > All the usual reasons people prefer tool A over tool B:
> > compatibility with a specific environment, personal
> > customizations, familiarity, and personal preference. LLDB is
> > free software. We should support it.
>
> Your argument disregards the important fact that LLDB is part
> of a project that aims to replace many important GNU packages,
> and its success is the GNU Project's loss.
I thought the goal of the GNU Project was to further the cause of
free software and not to make some particular brand of free software
more popular. Was I mistaken?
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-12 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-07 20:05 lldb support Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-08 3:08 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-08 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-08 19:58 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-09 0:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-09 1:17 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-09 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-10 0:26 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-11 1:26 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-11 4:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-11 4:46 ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-11-12 0:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-11 9:44 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-11-11 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-11 17:42 ` Stefan Huchler
2016-11-11 17:47 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-12 0:59 ` Stefan Huchler
2016-11-12 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-14 21:58 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-16 4:13 ` Joseph Mingrone
2016-11-16 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-25 20:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-11 19:01 ` Sam Steingold
2016-11-12 1:02 ` Stefan Huchler
2016-11-12 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-12 0:54 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2016-11-12 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-10 1:51 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-10 1:57 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-10 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 9:33 ` Toon Claes
2016-11-10 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 16:27 ` Toon Claes
2016-11-10 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-12 7:04 ` Toon Claes
2016-11-12 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-04 21:35 ` Toon Claes
2016-11-10 13:58 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-10 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 1:37 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-09 3:06 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-10 0:23 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-10 1:18 ` John Mastro
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