Re: insight-weekly-6.8.50-20081103 fails to compile

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>]

Martin Rakhmanov wrote:
> I see no val_print defined which accepts 10 args. How this ever could be 
> checked in?

Because that change was made to gdb, and I was off last week, so I did 
not get a chance to update insight sources yet. I have a patch for this, 
but it is not yet tested, and I need to get back to paying work.

> It looks like the project is almost dead. What is the future for insight?

IMO, there is very little future, but while I'm stuck using gdb for 
debugging, I will always keep insight limping along with the 
functionality I require (which is mostly just the source window, 
locals/watch, console, and bp window). Gdb is changing MUCH faster than 
I can keep up by myself.

As a result, I will probably put insight out to official pasture at the 
end of the year: meaning that I will officially step down as head 
maintainer, leaving that post vacant. The future of snapshots, releases, 
bug database, etc is undetermined. I will probably close/stop almost 
everything. This list will probably be one of the few things that remains.

Heck, with the work that's being done to integrate python into gdb, I 
might just start a new version of insight ((c) FSF this time) using python.

Believe it or not, I still believe we got a lot of things right.

Keith