Doug,
First off, congrats on the Calico project. Seriously cool. I wish I was
one of your students just starting out.
These kids today... jeez.
Anyway, if I was gonna tackle that project, first thing I would do is
download the source code for PyTools for Visual Studio (it does CLR/DLR
and CPython)
http://pytools.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets
and study it til I puked.
Secondly, I would do the same with MonoDevelop, and do the old
compare-and-contrast drill.
Write myself a white-paper, as it were. Profusely annotated and
Visio-diagrammed unto death.
And then outline what I could re-use as is and where I needed to do
major surgery.
(Or get the students to do it... ;-) )
PyTools is written in C# mostly, looks like, with a sprinkling of
C++/unsafe native code, but not in the debuggers. They look like
straight cs.
I have no idea what MonoDevelop looks like under the hood.
But between the two, I would expect to be able to get a pretty good idea
what could be done without re-inventing the world.
That's my two cents...
Best,
Dave
On 9/19/2011 8:09 AM, Doug Blank wrote:
IronPython users,
We have a fairly robust editor/shell written in IronPython, using
Gtk#, running under cross-platform Mono with abilities to switch
between many languages (including Python, Ruby, Scheme, Lua, FSharp,
CSharp, Boo, and a new visual Scratch-based language called Jigsaw.
Although not all are DLR-based.) [1].
What would be the best option for creating an interactive debugger for
the DLR languages on Mono? We would want to be able to set
break-points, single step, and inspect local variables. Ideally, this
would be a generic, language-neutral API, but if we have to do one for
each language, that might work too. Things we've looked at:
a) Seo's FePy Mono Profiler, but that seems too low-level, and
requires C code for each platform.
b) Microsoft.Scripting.Debugging [3], but will that work under Mono?
c) sys.settrace(), but that would be Python-specific, and can't single-step (?)
Are there other issues/options to consider? Please feel free to point
me towards useful resources.
Thanks!
-Doug
[1] - http://calicoproject.org/
[2] - http://fepy.blogspot.com/2007/06/pyprof-progresses.html
[3] - http://devhawk.net/2009/07/08/microsoft-scripting-debugging/
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