On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Peter Vereshagin <pe...@vereshagin.org>wrote:
> Hello. > > 2012/12/03 08:51:28 -0500 Rocky Bernstein <ro...@cpan.org> => To Richard > Foley : > RB> Something I think about when I read about things like this whether > there > RB> some sort of unifying principle that could be used in other debuggers > or > RB> for other similar sorts of programs. Is there some support that a > debugger > RB> should be providing to make things like this easier? > > I think it's about a standard for the program interface that majority of > debuggers should follow. > I'm not sure what you mean. Suggest something. > > Debug::Fork::Tmux can redefine some other function (and/or a global > variable) > from another debugger. In this case the feature to implement can be the > 'let > user to tweak a namespace other than DB to inject to'. Very obvious. > Devel::Trepan has lots of non-DB spaces one can tweak to. But again, I am not exactly sure what you mean so it would help if you could be very specific. > > RB> Too often, especially with the venerable Perl debugger, you read about > RB> patch someone has that made that does some interesting thing. Or s a > trick > RB> you can do in order to get something done that is commonly needed. It > feels > RB> less like the "art" but rather knowing about a number of isolated > tricks, > RB> or worse, workarounds that is relevant for one debugger on one > programming > RB> language. > > I don't patch the debugger, sorry. > > When needed, the critical mass of 'isolated tricks and workarounds' can be > collected into one distribution, and documented in details in one place, > can't > them? > > RB> That said, of course, all of this is cool. > > Great. > > My main target with Debug::Fork::Tmux was to make a convinient build > environment, including docs, for better and faster releasing. > > Otherwise the one can use a couple of lines to use Tmux for that same > purpose. > > RB> > Here is an interesting module from Peter Vereshagin which might help > with > RB> > debugging forks under the perl debugger, if you use tmux version 1.6+ > RB> > > RB> > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Debug-Fork-Tmux > > -- > Peter Vereshagin <pe...@vereshagin.org> (http://vereshagin.org) pgp: > A0E26627 >
