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

[Michael Jackson <mike.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is AWESOME news!! Can't wait to give it a try.

I'll second the BIG thanks to Marc-Andre.
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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio

On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Marc Khouzam wrote:

> 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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