Help writing a plugin

[Niko Sams]

>>    I also get the part about writing a GDB-specific plugin right now. Does
>> this have to be done in-tree or is it conceivable to have an standalone
>> plugin that a package manager (like RPM) could copy into the correct system
>> dir for KDevelop to detect?
>
> No, thats not possible. Only the gdb plugin has the knowledge about the
> displayed variables, so this would need to be done inside the gdb plugin
> in kdevelops source.
This is not true anymore, since a few days the variable tree is
debugger independent.
It should be possible to write a plugin that reads that tree. (we
might have to save
additional information to variables)

Niko