On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> 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! :-) > > Okay, so the outcome seems to be that there are a handful of users. > I'll keep the debugger around for a little longer but I'm going to > apply the following changes: > > 1. Update the stability level to '0 - Deprecated'. No bug reports or > pull requests accepted anymore, it is what it is. > > 2. Remove the tests. They're really flaky anyway. > > 3. Medium/long-term break out the debugger into a separate module. > > Thanks for taking the time to reply everyone.
After some more discussion, we've decided to keep the debugger around for a little longer. The tests may still end up getting scrapped unless someone gets around to rewriting them. -- -- 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.
