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Re: Does anyone use insight on cygwin?


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 7 12:45, Danilo Turina wrote:
Charles Wilson wrote:
[...]
I could certainly see splitting the distribution into two packages. This means that 'gdb -w' would fail in strange and wonderful ways if the "insight" package with all of its tcl scripts were not installed, but...maybe that's okay.
This already happened in the past (for Vim):

$ vim -g
E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time

$ gvim

and nobody seems to complain about it.

vim is the non-GUI version and built independently from gvim. That's why -g isn't available.

I know (I must be more verbose on my e-mail and/or improve my communication skills).


I was only saying that:

1) in the past, two different packages (vim e gvim) have been introduced, respectively for the textual and the graphical versions on vim;

2) because of 1) "vim -g" gives an error (for which nobody complains, since if one wants the X version, he simply installs and run gvim (and this is absolutely right));

3) I imagine that error given by "vim -g" is similar to the error, a gdb non depending from X would give in invoked with the "-w" option ("gdb -w");

4) this similarity makes me think that having two different packages one for the textual gdb (obviously non depending from X) and one for the graphical insight (depending from a Tcl/Tk that in turns depend from X) would be a good idea: it worked in the past for the users of Cygwin.

Ciao,
		Danilo Turina



Corinna


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