AW: [lepido-dev] Re: [Contribution] Sitemap Debugger/Trace

["Jens Maukisch" <jmaukisch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> 
> Sorry for the late answer, I took me some time to have an 
> in-depth look 
> at the code and triggered some difficult thoughts (see below).

No problem, that's what Open Source is for :-). 

> I perfectly agree with this, we need to get started. However, and I'm 
> sorry to say that, the current code and architecture of the sunBow 
> debugger doesn't seem to me as being a viable starting code base. Too 
> many limitations that prevent it to become a full-fledged debugger 
> without a total rewrite.

Maybe. On the other hand - it is a working Cocoon debugger with quite a bit
of functionality. If you have a better alternative that is more in line with
the Lepido project and community - then no problem with that.


> I haven't touched this for about a year now, and I'd like to 
> clean it up 
> before publishing it.

I look forward to seeing and trying out your debugger. After that then we
can obviously talk about what a joint version could look like.

> In the meantime, here are some very interesting resources about the 
> Eclipse debugger framework:
> - How to write an Eclipse debugger:
>   http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Debugger/how-to.html
> - Material of the EclipseCon 2005 tutorial:
>   
> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2005/presentations/EclipseCon2005_Tu
> torial21.zip

Yes, I know this stuff. As I've mentioned on
http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/LepidoSitemapDebugger
we need to discuss if it is usefull to port our debugger to the Eclipse
Debugging
Infrastructure.


But please remember what you've posted on the newsgroup some days ago:
"So unless external contributors or sponsors jump in to help us moving 
forward, Lepido's growth will be slow."

kind regards
Jens