From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lldb support Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:01:25 -0500 Organization: disorganization 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: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478891019 11888 195.159.176.226 (11 Nov 2016 19:03:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:03:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 11 20:03:34 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 1c5H6k-0001ZZ-VS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:03:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5H6n-0005mh-Vv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41507) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5H5e-0005l8-75 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5H5b-0007ao-3P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:02:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52169 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5H5a-0007aX-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:02:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c5H5K-0007PJ-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:01:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. Cancel-Lock: sha1:I3esU/acfos4BXcSjYOv5KMx/o4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:209345 Archived-At: > * Richard Stallman [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. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on darwin Ns 10.3.1504 http://steingoldpsychology.com http://www.childpsy.net http://mideasttruth.com http://think-israel.org http://thereligionofpeace.com https://jihadwatch.org Linux: Telling Microsoft where to go since 1991.