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Re: Various problems and/or questions on Insight 5.2.1


On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:24:48AM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:20:40PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>>If you do go this course, might I recomend that you use Cygwin/XFree
>>for the gui front end?
>
>On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>We really can't require people to install X in order to get a graphical
>>debugger for cygwin.
>
>Please understand that all I'm trying to do is help facilitate a
>reasonable solution to a current problem.  I mean no disrespect or
>malice in my intentions.  Can we please keep this friendly, as I know
>this subject tends to bring out emotional debate.

I've put back the part of your email where you suggested that using
XFree86 was an alternative way to get insight working on Windows.

You are inexplicably inferring some kind of emotional response from my
simple statement of fact.  You would be well advised to stick to actual
issues and avoid admonitions based on supposition.

>>I suppose but, while I can't direct people's time, it sure seems like
>>focusing on fixing the native insight is a much much higher priority.
>
>I agree, having a working insight would be nice.  Still, you did tell
>people that further discussion of this should be done on this list.

So, discuss away.  I think I made my end of the views clear.  That's how
discussions work, right?

>That is what I'm doing.  My intent is not to de-rail the goal of a
>working insight.

Well, IMO, suggesting that cygwin users would want to install X in order
to do debugging really is rather of a derailment of the issue at hand.

>Anyhow, after a brief discussion with Chuck, having two versions would
>be the best compromise.

I doubt that few in the insight mailing list know who "Chuck" is or why
his opinion would hold any weight.  However, for the record, I think it
is clear that quoting "and so and so agrees with me" doesn't really
advance the discussion very much.

I really don't see what X has to do with the discussion of fixing
tcl/tk/insight.  It seems to me like you are dragging an entirely
different issue into this discussion.

>I look forward to contiuing discussion on this subject and to hopefully
>provide some patches (although the tcl/tk internals are not areas of my
>expertise).

cgf


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