Re: [FR-devel] Projects status...

[Laurent Julliard]

Baptiste Lepilleur wrote:
>     Well, I'm new around here and I'd like to know the status of the
> following projects:
>
> * Debug: I've skimmed over some thread concerning the choice of a wrapper.
> Have a choice been made, is there anything (even if it's just some testing
> of the wrapping library).

I have appointed myself as the owner of the debugger module. I spent 
sometime thinking about it and so far I see 2 possible approaches:

- The quick and dirty one: use the open3 ruby call to open a 
bidirectinal pipe to ruby debugger process, transform Ui actions into 
debugger command line and analyse the debugger output to properly update 
the freeRIDE UI.

- The right one: augment Hiroshi NAKAMURA's remote debugger so that you 
can drive it through Ruby code. Hiroshi's remote debugger uses dRuby and 
it will be easy to extend. The big advantage of using the remote 
debugger is you can pass Ruby objects back and forth between the 
debugger and the debuggee though making varibale inspection, formatting, 
etc... much easier. The remote debugger is available at:

http://www.jin.gr.jp/~nahi/Ruby/debugger.tar.gz

You may see other approaches yourself. If so I'd be more than happy to 
discuss them on this ML

Laurent