kdevelop drkonqi integration

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi,

On 21.04.09 17:06:48, George Kiagiadakis wrote:
> However, there is still a point I'm worried about. Drkonqi2 uses a state 
> machine that stops the process (with SIGSTOP) when it is not being debugged. 
> To start debugging with kdevelop, drkonqi has to enter the "debugger is 
> running" state, where it sends a SIGCONT to the process (to allow gdb 
> attaching on it)

Are you sure the process needs to be running for gdb to attach to it? I
would've thought that it should also be possible to attach gdb if its
stopped.

> and disallows fetching a backtrace or starting debugging with 
> gdb. So, after starting debugging with kdevelop, drkonqi is completely useless 
> as it can't generate a backtrace and thus it is unable to report a bug.

IMHO if someone wants to debug the application that crashes with either
plain gdb or KDevelop we can assume that this person at least remotely
knows what he does and doesn't need the crash handler anymore after
finishing debugging the app. So I think your solution 2) of shutting
down drkonqi2 when kdevelop has attached to the process is the right
one.

> In addition, there is another minor issue. Kdevelop currently registers itself 
> with the name "Debug in KDevelop", which appear as is on the button. This is 
> not a problem, but I wonder if it would be better to register itself as 
> "KDevelop" so that we can have control over the rest of the string. Currently, 
> there is a "Debug" button-menu, which has two entries: "Debug in gdb", "Debug 
> in KDevelop". It's kind of ugly that the first one is "Debug in 
> <application>%1</application>" in the code, and the other one is just filled 
> with what drkonqi receives over dbus. It is difficult to keep them consistent if 
> one string needs to change, or if the translations from drkonqi and kdevelop 
> are different...

Hmm, I'm monitoring the kde-core list, so as soon as drkonqi2 replaced
(or did that already happen and I just didn't notice?) the existing
drkonqi I'll remove the "Debug in" part from the string for KDE 4.3.

Andreas
 
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