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Renaming insight to `insight'
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- Subject: Renaming insight to `insight'
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 07 Dec 2000 16:12:34 -0700
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
I recently sent a patch to gdb-patches.
It contains one deceptively simple change to top.c:
Index: top.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/top.c,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.22 top.c
--- top.c 2000/11/27 02:18:44 1.22
+++ top.c 2000/12/07 00:03:02
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
/* If nonzero, and GDB has been configured to be able to use windows,
attempt to open them upon startup. */
-int use_windows = 1;
+int use_windows = 0;
extern char lang_frame_mismatch_warn[]; /* language.c */
This part of change has gone without public comment so far. (And
without any apparent review by the maintainers.)
The idea here is that `gdb' should just be gdb, and if you want the
GUI you should have to use some other command (eg in this case,
"insight").
I personally like this. That is why I implemented it. When I use gdb
from the command line I always use `gdb -nw', which gets annoying
after a while.
Also, I think this patches emphasizes that insight isn't really gdb.
I think if users type "gdb" then they should get gdb -- not some GUI
that isn't an official part of the gdb distribution. I think this
should happen regardless of how system integrators choose to build gdb
(for instance, Debian or Red Hat might choose to build insight, to
offer more features to their uses. But "gdb" should still be the
trusty CLI, even though that particular gdb executable happens to have
the GUI in it).
Tom