From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:41:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423349013 12900 80.91.229.3 (7 Feb 2015 22:43:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 22:43:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 07 23:43:32 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YKE65-0005WB-RO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 23:43:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54777 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKE65-0005UU-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKE62-0005UH-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKE61-00083K-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:43:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKE61-00083G-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKE4X-0005YY-1a; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:41:53 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:48:59 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182620 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. ]]] I don't know what I will find about LLDB. I don't know what conclusions I will reach about it. So I can't say anything concrete about it now. Installing that change would be favorable for Emacs, probably just a little. It would probably be bad for GDB, but I have no idea how much. Refusing to installing it would be a statement with some significance, but I don't know how much. I can't tell whether it is good or bad to install that change. Despite this uncertainty, I can say something general about what we should do. We should do what is best for the GNU system's goal of giving the users freedom. This means considering what is good for Emacs and what is good for GDB, to make a decision. Then the whole GNU Project should do what is best. That is the responsibility of each GNU package maintainer. If GNU packages do not support each other, it will be easier for many of them to fail. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.