Martin schreef:
And to save the honour of graeme, he started 3 threads:
http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2009-September/045378.html
http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2009-September/045380.html
http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2009-September/045383.html
All three where basic question, if there was a way, and if so which way
it was. Only the last one also expressed some "frustration" about the
inaccessibility of the debug features.
Then later mails (other people) developped into statements like "The
debugger is not usable as it does not have been in the focus to be
developed. " or " lack elemental features that are waiting to be
implemented and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting"; And then
soon saying this was a reason for people not to use Lazarus, or to move
away from Lazarus.
And to balance the praise of graeme, he wrote on the wiki
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas#Integrated_and_Working_Debugger:
<quote>Debugging from inside the IDE is near impossible.</quote>
<quote>This should become a bigger priority than more eye-candy for the
IDE.</quote>
<quote>Unfortunately with open source projects, contributors only contribute to
fulfill their own needs, and not the needs of others.<quote>
To me, this pretty much says about the same as in the paragraph above.
Fortunately he still<quote>loves the many unique IDE features Lazarus has to
offer.</quote>
I wish I was capable of editing that feature request to make it more reasonable and
factual. IMHO, the GDB is not as much C/C++ centric, but it is a stand-alone
application, and not integrated (in process) in the IDE like in Delphi. Stand-alone
debuggers always have more limitations.
And what do you think is next? Delphi like packages? Or should that be implemented
before we even think about improving the debugging experience in Lazarus?
Vincent
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