From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lldb support Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:26:18 -0500 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478827623 337 195.159.176.226 (11 Nov 2016 01:27:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 01:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, perry@piermont.com To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 11 02:26:59 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 1c50c5-0006GH-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:26:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50188 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c50c8-0003ow-4E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c50c0-0003nu-Jy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:26:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c50bz-0002AQ-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:26:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52225) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c50bi-000229-SQ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:26:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c50bi-0003OQ-6b; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:26:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <735f8965-609a-d0c2-82bc-19a2393186b6@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Wed, 9 Nov 2016 16:26:44 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:209335 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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 think that that is not important to you, but it is very important for the GNU Project. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.