RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el

An anonymous reader writes with the news that Richard Stallman is upset over the prospect of GNU Emacs's Grand Unified Debugger (Gud.el) supporting LLVM's LLDB debugger. Stallman says it looks like there is a systematic effort to attack GNU packages and calls for the GNU Project to respond strategically. He wrote his concerns to the mailing list after a patch emerged that would optionally support LLDB alongside GDB as an alternative debugger for Emacs. Other Emacs developers discounted RMS' claims by saying Emacs supports Windows and OS X, so why not support a BSD-licensed compiler/debugger? The Emacs maintainer has called the statements irrelevant and won't affect their decision to merge the LLDB support.

Comments

Who cares what RMS wants?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets see what my grandmother wants while we're at. Her opinion is just as valid.

Re: Who cares what RMS wants?

[TheRaven64]

It's also not just proprietary software. For example, the Eclipse license is not GPL compatible, so even if GCC were cleanly structured you wouldn't be able to create a library incorporating GCC code and link it in to Eclipse. The same applies to anything Apache licensed. One of the benefits of LLVM is that you can use the code with projects of any open source license (except, apparently, emacs) and not have to worry about the incompatibility.

This Stephan Monnier guy

[93 Escort Wagon]

Take your time. But whatever you find out is irrelevant to whether or not the Emacs maintainer will accept LLVM support into gud.el, at least as long as I'm the maintainer.

I think I like him.

Fragmenting Open Source

[murdocj]

Ah, Open Source infighting: "We're not the People's Judean Front! We're the Popular Front for Judea. The People's Front is over there".