General Debugger Framework

[Niko Sams]

Hi,

To support more debuggers than just gdb we need a generic debugger
framework with
a common UI. I started this with a first patch
(http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/379/) - you can't
call it framework :D it's just a bunch of common actions - as this is
the most annoying if
you have those actions for every debugger duplicated in the gui.
I'm currently also working on a XDebug (http://xdebug.org a php
debugger) debugger implementation
that uses the dbgp protocol - a generic protocol.

So a few things have to be cleared:
- what debugger will get ported to that framework?
- is this planned after the first kdevelop release?
- general direction of the debugger framework
   apaku proposed the debugger plugin should not have access to
   any gui components. That would mean we have to think about models
   for stack/variable-view/breakpoints and so on. Advantage is a common UI
   that just has to be implemented once.
   However not all debuggers have the same features (gdb can show memory stuff
   where xdebug won't do that)

Niko