Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:39:50 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone use insight on cygwin?
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:45:26PM +0200, 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.

If insight is changed to rely on X, I will split the packages.  I'm not
going to make gdb rely on X.

I already said this once in this thread and, really, it is pretty
obvious.

cgf

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