From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lldb support Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:54:32 -0500 Message-ID: <20161111195432.237605f4@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20161107150552.20e98985@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161107220815.606cd583@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <6c239d49-a92c-1495-7121-4808295a4fc2@dancol.org> <735f8965-609a-d0c2-82bc-19a2393186b6@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478912151 12566 195.159.176.226 (12 Nov 2016 00:55:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:55:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 01:55:47 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c5Mb6-0006J8-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 01:55:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56176 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5Mb7-0000Gs-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:55:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47368) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5MaY-0000GD-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5MaX-0002RG-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:60047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5MaX-0002R8-Ia; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:54:33 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE47ECA; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:54:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0812DE28F; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:54:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209349 Archived-At: On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:26:18 -0500 Richard Stallman 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 -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com