Re: [cdt-dev] proposal: remove several CDI debuggers

[Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/04/2010 22:37, John Cortell wrote:

> Well, the thing to keep in mind is that source containers are a debugger
> concept; they are currently only really used by the debugger.

  Drat, that foiled my cunning plan :)

>> Would it possibly be even nicer if it was derived from the existing file 
>> mapping container, so that it could get all the UI and allow manual 
>> entries to be added, while preloading itself with the system's default
>> path mappings?
> 
> Hm. Not really seeing your vision here.

  Well, to have the whole application know all the possible path translations
it might stumble across anytime it's parsing, e.g. file paths received from a
debugger - or any other tool.  Or is it just that most of the IDE (generic
platform parts as well as CDT) thinks of files in terms of their native paths,
and Cygpath gets in the way when passing commands /to/ the tools, but it's
really only the debugger that ever needs to know about converting cygwin paths
back to native ones?

    cheers,
      DaveK