Re: Questions about gdb/mi support on the Mac

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:45:36AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:37:33AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > OK, when my users say, "hey, why doesn't cgdb work on mac os x anymore?", 
> > I'll tell them either, "add support to cgdb yourself" or 
> > "no, really, it's a good thing that apple ported gdb to Mac OS X and
> > cgdb doesn't work".
> > 
> > This is literally the position I'm in. How do you suggest I reason about
> > the possibilities I have? Do you have a better possibility for me?
> 
> Would you rather they hadn't ported any GDB to Mac OS X at all?  Tell
> your users that Apple's port does not include what cgdb needs.  It's
> no different from someone complaining that it doesn't work on any
> platform with no GDB port at all.

I really don't know. I suppose it's a good thing that apple did the
port.

Actually, I think I'll just point them to this thread, I think I've made
my case fair enough.

Bob Rossi