From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16460 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2008 08:59:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 16437 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Feb 2008 08:59:49 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:59:25 +0000 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JRknS-00068O-Ry; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:59:22 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 From: Richard Stallman To: Nick Roberts CC: drow@false.org, gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:18:46 +1300) Subject: Re: New MI maintainer Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: <20080219191222.GA10196@caradoc.them.org> <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Message-Id: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:05:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 The process behind these decisions is not open to me but it doesn't escape my attention that Vladimir is now part of CodeSourcery, and that CodeSourcery have at least one contract (with Ericsson) to work on Eclipse which uses GDB/MI in its DSF plugin. If a company is willing to pay for work on MI, that is a good thing. I don't think we should treat that as something suspect. However, it does sound like the SC should say something to Vladimir about the vital importance of backward compatibility and compatibility with other GNU packages.