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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
Cc: "André Pönitz" <apoenitz@trolltech.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Questions about gdb/mi support on the Mac
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18132.3298.249088.106225@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070828112438.GJ6213@cox.net>

 > > > If your frontend must run on a Mac then you either need to compile FSF
 > > > GDB for the Mac (if that's possible)
 > > 
 > > It isn't.
 > 
 > Well, in that case, hopefully people realize that apple is making some
 > silly decisions by making a monopoly on gdb front ends. Not that I
 > believe this was there intention, but I do believe it was a
 > consequence of there irresponsibility.

It's not silly and it's not a monopoly.  They're accountable to their
shareholders, not us.  All Apple's changes are released under GPL and available
from their repository.  Anyone can merge them back into FSF GDB, if they wish.
Indeed, we have done some of that in the past.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-28 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-24 17:51 Gordon Prieur
2007-08-24 18:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-24 18:30   ` Jim Ingham
2007-08-24 18:43   ` Bob Rossi
2007-08-25  9:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-25 10:19       ` Bob Rossi
2007-08-28  8:49     ` André Pönitz
2007-08-28  8:29 ` André Pönitz
2007-08-28  8:56   ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-28 10:55     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-28 11:24       ` Bob Rossi
2007-08-28 11:33         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-28 12:53           ` Bob Rossi
2007-08-28 13:13             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-28 13:37               ` Bob Rossi
2007-08-28 13:45                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-28 13:54                   ` Bob Rossi
2007-08-28 15:05               ` Gordon Prieur
2007-08-28 11:54         ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-08-28 12:40           ` Bob Rossi
2007-08-29  5:03             ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-30 21:10           ` Mark Kettenis

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