RE: [cdt-dev] Upcoming CDT Service Release and OS X Debugging.

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe, with a little luck, those issues won't be present when using DSF-GDB.
But you'll have to give it a try...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Jackson
> Sent: January-05-10 12:59 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Upcoming CDT Service Release and OS X 
> Debugging.
> 
> So, How hard is it going to be to "port" a CDI patch to the 
> DSF Framework? My initial thought is that all the hard work 
> that went into creating those patches will have to be redone. 
> It took long enough to get those in the first place.
> 
>    I know no one is working on CDI but is it possible to get 
> the patches applied for the 6.0.2 service release? I guess 
> the other way is to temporarily "fork" until Helios is 
> release with (hopefully) fixing debugging. I would really 
> hate to do that but the OS X Users are really working with an 
> inferior product at this point and the possibility of having 
> something so close to working properly is just killing me.
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Mike is right that we agreed on a way forward for debugging 
> with OS X.  
> > Here is what we agreed on.
> >
> > First, fixing things for CDI is tricky because there is not 
> really any 
> > active committers working on CDI.  This is not just for OS 
> X, but for 
> > CDI in general.
> >
> > So, to get OS X debugging working, we'd like to help the community 
> > move away from CDI and towards DSF-GDB.  We hope that if 
> patches are 
> > written for DSF-GDB, they will have a better chance of being 
> > committed.
> > To make this easier still, Pawel had the good idea of 
> creating a set 
> > of services specific to Apple's version of GDB.  This will allow to 
> > commit patches specific to OS X without affecting other GDB 
> versions.
> > I have opened http://bugs.eclipse.org/298883 to track that 
> effort.   
> > I will
> > try to have a patch ready this week.
> >
> > Once that is ready, it will be up to the interested members of the 
> > community to try debugging with DSF-GDB and OS X and 
> getting patches 
> > written.
> >
> > Let's try to have DSF-GDB debugging properly on OS X for Helios.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Jackson
> >> Sent: January-05-10 12:14 PM
> >> To: CDT General developers list.
> >> Subject: [cdt-dev] Upcoming CDT Service Release and OS X Debugging.
> >>
> >>
> >> From the CDT conference call today it seems that there is a plan 
> >> going forward to shape up the OS X Debugging experience.
> >> I'll let someone else run through the details as my notes 
> are shaky 
> >> at best.
> >> But what I did take away from the call is that the 
> implementation may 
> >> take some time? With the next service release coming up I would be 
> >> curious if the non-DSF patches could be committed so at 
> least some of 
> >> the major debugging "Bugs" are fixed for the next service release?
> >>
> >>   Thoughts and comments? The slow start up of the debugger and the 
> >> thread-info seem like pretty low hanging fruit.
> >>
> >>   Also, from the call it sounds like some of the issues with 
> >> supporting OS X is not lack of hardware (someone on the call 
> >> mentioned they use CDT on their Mac) but the lack of 
> Developer time 
> >> to check patches, review code and/or actually debug 
> issues? Is that a 
> >> fair statement?
> >>
> >> _________________________________________________________
> >> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
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