> I would like to know whether there are people out there that would be negatively affected by such a change.
Yes. There is no good alternative for built-in debugger right now. node-inspector and node-webkit agent are both web-based, they require to use chromium, hard to set up with remote servers, don't always work on unstable, etc., etc. Maybe something has changes over the last months, but I have rather negative experience using them before. I suppose if you take it out of the core and publish as a separate module, this would work. But we really should have a simple debugger that works everywhere and anytime regardless of the environment. Which means command line debugger. Why is it pain to support anyway? I just did 'git log _debugger.js', and there aren't much changes there. I know that readline changes break it sometimes, but it's not a big deal. On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 7:38:36 PM UTC+4, Ben Noordhuis wrote: > > The built-in debugger is a major pain to keep working and some > informal polling suggests that no one really uses it or is even aware > that it exists. > > I'm toying with the idea of dropping it altogether and replacing it > with some hooks for projects like node-inspector and node-webkit-agent > because that's what everyone seems to be using anyway. > > Before I go ahead, I would like to know whether there are people out > there that would be negatively affected by such a change. > > If you are or if you disagree with the approach outlined above for > other reasons, now is the time to speak up! :-) > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
