On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:11:13AM -0500, Troy Davis wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Nathan Waddell wrote: > >I'm specifically looking for some tips on how to set up Eclipse (with > >EPIC, of course) to debug Catalyst applications - either locally or > >remotely. I'm ok with using the Catalyst built-in development server > >for this, so no worries about Apache, etc. > > I use eclipse when working on my catalyst apps. I'm using EPIC as > well, which helps me catch many bugs. But I've never found a way to > debug an app interactively from within eclipse. EPIC claims to > contain a debugger, so I suppose it's theoretically possible, but I'm > not sure how it would work in a Catalyst context. I also have a few > errors that eclipse lists, but which don't cause and problems in the > app. Tweaking paths and such hasn't helped so far, and the authors of > EPIC were kind enough to reply to my messages about that issue, but > didn't work with Catalyst so didn't have a recommended solution. > > I'd also like to see a better debugging environment for Catalyst apps > under EPIC, so post a message to the EPIC email list. Hopefully an > increase in message traffic about Catalyst on EPIC will result in > more attention being paid to getting it to work.
I'd be perfectly happy to act as "the guy who understands Catalyst" in order to help make this happen. Personally, I consider screen+vi+Devel::REPL to be my IDE but it doesn't mean I don't want to see other people's preferences supported too :) -- Matt S Trout Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class project? Technical Director http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/catalyst/ Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Want a managed development or deployment platform? http://chainsawblues.vox.com/ http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/servers/ _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/