From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7289 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2005 16:23:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31589 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2005 16:15:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.9) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 16:15:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 30919 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2005 16:14:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?65.78.187.111?) (mitchell@127.0.0.1) by mail.codesourcery.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 16:14:41 -0000 Message-ID: <42725D6A.7040103@codesourcery.com> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:31:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Faylor CC: paul@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Windows support in GDB References: <200504291513.j3TFDhjx021040@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050429153146.GA27362@nevyn.them.org> <20050429160040.GH10017@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20050429160040.GH10017@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00220.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > While I am the Windows maintainer for gdb, I have been thinking that > maybe I might have to step down if it means that I'll have to support a > Windows configuration for which I have little interest. I think that would be a shame. > I haven't asked what the problem is with just using cygwin with gdb. > I suspect that the standard two problems are: You might ask the MinGW community why they exist. :-) One reason to use MinGW is that you're using other tools that rely on Windows paths, and don't understand Cygwin mount points. Or you yourself don't understand Cygwin mount points. :-) The fundamental reason for us to use it is that our customers say -- strongly -- that they do not want to use Cygwin. (In contrast, I use Cygwin every day.) There are a lot of possible reasons for the customer desire, and it doesn't really seem all that useful to debate the reasons, as our debate won't change their minds. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery, LLC mark@codesourcery.com (916) 791-8304