From: "Laurent Bercot" <ska-dietlibc@skarnet.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] option to enable eh_frame
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 07:24:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <emee691b46-779e-42e2-92d1-969c1f32f5b4@elzian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33b6a644-4930-98e5-6376-504867b6423a@dereferenced.org>
>It is about debugging, but specifically enabling downstream users to do basic debugging without having to install the musl-dbg package. This is commonly requested both in public Alpine channels, and also in various support engagements Alpine developers have with their customers in a personal capacity. It has been a point of contention for many years in the Alpine community, as a result.
From what I can see, this point of contention has not exactly stopped
Alpine's expansion.
Using Alpine comes with benefits; it also comes with some drawbacks,
and every reasonable user should be able to understand this. As a
maintainer, it obviously makes sense to try and minimize these
drawbacks,
but are we really talking about a situation where the user's complaint
is 'I have to type "apk add musl-dbg" before performing debugging' ?
Are we really talking about a situation where the proposed solution
to that complaint is *forking the libc that is a huge part of Alpine's
success in the first place* ?
I suspect there is a lot being left unsaid here, because at face value,
the cost-benefit analysis is obvious and I don't understand how this is
even a question.
Without any more information, what it looks like to me is corporate
lobbying, which Alpine has always managed to deal with in a reasonable
manner in the past and I am not sure what changed.
--
Laurent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-17 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-16 9:16 Timo Teras
2021-07-16 15:57 ` Rich Felker
2021-07-16 22:06 ` Ariadne Conill
2021-07-17 0:41 ` Rich Felker
2021-07-17 1:08 ` Ariadne Conill
2021-07-17 1:10 ` Érico Nogueira
2021-07-17 7:24 ` Laurent Bercot [this message]
2021-07-18 8:16 ` Timo Teras
2021-07-17 7:33 ` Timo Teras
2021-07-17 10:38 ` Timo Teras
2021-07-17 13:25 ` Rich Felker
2021-07-17 15:40 ` Timo Teras
2021-07-17 16:09 ` Rich Felker
2021-07-17 19:52 ` Ariadne Conill
2021-07-17 23:56 ` Rich Felker
2021-07-18 1:40 ` Ariadne Conill
2021-07-18 2:23 ` Ariadne Conill
2021-07-18 6:09 ` Timo Teras
2021-07-18 7:20 ` Timo Teras
2021-07-24 23:45 ` Fangrui Song
2022-04-17 19:50 ` Fangrui Song
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