[cdt-dev] Debugging with Mac (was: About default debuggers, etc)

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm happy to report that the two last bugs that were causing problems
with DSF-GDB on Mac have now been resolved.

> Reasons to choose CDI over DSF-GDB on Mac
> - CDI works with paths containing spaces (DSF bug 263689) -> FIXED
> - Insert breakpoint while running (DSF bug 242943) -> FIXED

Furthermore, a new command factory has been added to DSF-GDB to allow
for easy changes (for Mac or others) (Bug 304146)

I believe there are no currently known problems with debugging on Mac 
with DSF-GDB.

Please report if there are any issues that I'm not aware of.

A big thank you to Marc-Andre Laperle for his patience in writing and
testing many patches.

Marc



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marc-Andre Laperle
> Sent: February-04-10 6:04 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: [cdt-dev] About default debuggers, etc
> 
> I'm not sure which thread to reply to :p
> 
> I strongly feel that the base CDT needs to be easy to use and 
> have defaults. The user shouldn't need to read the wiki or 
> the mailing list to choose a launcher and start debugging.
> 
> About Mac, it's great that CDI is getting patched for 6.0.2 
> but DSF-GDB in 7.0 is one patch away (bug 301720) from being 
> slightly better IMO since threading will work better if I 
> can't find a way to patch bug 269838.
> 
> Reasons to choose CDI over DSF-GDB on Mac
> - CDI works with paths containing spaces (DSF bug 263689)
> - Insert breakpoint while running (DSF bug 242943)
> 
> Reasons to choose DSF-GDB over CDI on Mac
> - Threading works better *now* (301720 has a patch for DSF, 
> 269838 has a patch for CDI which breaks 250037)
> 
> I think we should wait a bit (a couple of weeks?) before 
> choosing the default for 7.0 and see how the two evolve. I'm 
> all for DSF-GDB if it will be better maintained but I like 
> how in CDI I can override a single command using the factory 
> with the extension 
> (org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core.commandFactories). In this 
> sense, I feel like DSF-GDB is less extensible.
> 
> About EDC, the fact that I can't use it on my PC worries me a 
> bit (bug 301659). I like the fact that you don't need to 
> install a seperate debugger, though. I will continue to test 
> EDC (in a VM, sigh...) and report bugs and enhancements. I 
> feel that if EDC becomes the default launcher for Windows, 
> this will put CDT in a corner and be harder to maintain. By 
> using using MinGW's debugger, CDT benefits from the work of 
> existing communities (FSF, MinGW and others using  MinGW's 
> GDB like Code::Blocks). I want to improve debugging on 
> Windows but it would be great to know which one to contribute 
> to (CDI, DSF-GDB or EDC).
> 
> Marc-Andre
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