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From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lldb support
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:01:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1wpg9et8a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1c50bi-0003OQ-6b@fencepost.gnu.org

> * Richard Stallman <ezf@tah.bet> [2016-11-10 20:26:18 -0500]:
>
>   > 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.

What is wrong with replacing a GNU package with a non-GNU
package which is free software?

How is it a loss for GNU?

It seems that if there is a better free debugger than gdb, GNU can
switch the resources currently devoted to gdb to another project.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-11 19:01 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 [this message]
2016-11-12  1:02                 ` Stefan Huchler
2016-11-12 22:25                 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-12  0:54               ` Perry E. Metzger
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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