Fitting Ddbg into your environment

Jascha Wetzel "[firstname]" at mainia.de
Fri Feb 23 09:37:23 PST 2007


oh and btw - Ddbg is a win32 tool, so unix frontends can't be
considered. however, there might be emacs users on windows. i know
people who use vi on windows, so... :)

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Jascha Wetzel wrote:
>> Please consider voting for your favorite GDB frontend:
>> http://ddbg.mainia.de/
>>
>> Here is why:
>>
>> i'm adding GDB CLI imitation to Ddbg to have short-term integration into
>> common frontends. the Ddbg CLI will still be continued, because i think
>> it's simpler than GDB syntax if you use the debugger manually.
>>
>> to avoid implementing unnessecary details of the GDB CLI, i won't bother
>> trying to clone it's behaviour exactly. instead i'm being pragmatic here
>> and just doing what's nessecary to make frontends happy. therefore i'll
>> have to check a few of them to approach a stable subset of the GDB CLI
>> we can live with.
>> currently i'm doing this with codeblocks, which is what i'm using
>> myself. others will follow depending on your demand.
> 
> It's great that you're doing this, but I wish I could provide more than
> one answer :-)  I'd use Visual Studio on Windows, and obviously
> something else on Unix.  emacs most likely, since that works everywhere,
> but some of the fancy Linux IDEs look pretty nice.
> 
> 
> Sean



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