Debbuger

[Vladimir Prus]

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 09:36:51 Hamish Rodda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've decided to try to make the debugger work for kdevelop 4.0, it would be a 
> shame if we couldn't provide a working debugger as it's one of the strengths 
> of having an IDE.
> 
> In analysing what happened to the debugger after my initial port from kdevelop 
> 3.x, it seems that the major problem was that I had ported it to a pure 
> model/view implementation, however Volodya preferred it to be based on some 
> base classes to decrease complexity.  This is fine, but it seems the change 
> was never completed - some parts were rewritten, and some were just commented 
> out.  This left us with a debugger unable to display variables, which is not 
> very useful.  
> I feel it is too much effort for me to fix all of the problems  
> with head, especially because I don't understand why some parts were seemingly 
> rewritten.
> 
> I've started a branch which aims to provide something that is working, and we 
> can discuss whether we go back to HEAD if/when someone steps up to fix the 
> problems with head.  I'd even be open to helping with a port away from a pure 
> model/view implementation, as long as it is planned well and doesn't involve 
> wholesale re-writing of code (without a good reason).
> 
> The major deficiencies of this branch (if it gets to a working state) will 
> probably be:
> 1) use of the old breakpoint widget
> 2) variable tooltip feature missing
> which could also be ported over, if the branch is to continue on...
> 
> The branch is in playground.

Oh, competition! That's always good :-) 

- Volodya