Re: [cdt-debug-dev] StandAlone CDT debugger (was: Debugging native apps)

["Alain Magloire" <alain@xxxxxxx>]

> 
> >>>>> "Alain" == Alain Magloire <alain@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Alain> What they are really saying(what they are complaining about):
> Alain>   - they want a "light" version, i.e. when starting
> Alain>     you are not looking at the eclipse icon for 3 minutes before the
> Alain>     !@^%# main window pops.
> 
> FWIW, I'm not so sure the issue is eclipse's speed or perceived
> bloat, but rather the idea that using eclipse at all means figuring
> out how to set up a project, importing the sources, etc...
> 
> In my experience, folks who want this feature seem to be coming from
> an Insight/DDD background.  They just want to point the debugger GUI
> at their executable and source tree and start debugging.
> 
> There's also a kind of command-line user interface issue here, namely
> that you can run "insight foo.exe" and have something useful happen,
> but there's no way to do this with eclipse -- instead you have to do
> some setup before you can start.
> 
> I think that's subtly different from what you're saying.  Personally I
> would find this occasionally useful, but I can completely understand
> why it hasn't been a priority.  It seems like a fair amount of work
> for a kind of corner case (though I realize others don't see it as a
> corner case at all).
> 

Agreed.

CDT is a .."complete".. IDE, you get the entire package, one platform to rule them all.

	"One ring(IDE) to rule them all, forged in darkness in an evil
	place(Eclipse foundation) and created for an evil
	purpose(make it harder on new-users)."

Trying to put layers to allow the debugger to run standalone
will bring a lot of complexity(i.e. isolating the dependencies
and coding around it), the gain is for the good of a few ...

I would prefer to concentrate on the task of getting a complete/full-flege IDE.
And looking on how eclipse platform is coming along, it is probably wiser to
wait, lots of framework are added in Eclipse base that will make this much
more easier for the futre.