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Re: [epp-dev] Migrate CDT Strand-alone Debugger product to EPP?

Hi Ed,

I realized I didn't answer one of your questions - perhaps your main one :-)

I expect a target user to only download the C/C++ Stand-alone debugger package as they are only interested in that functionality.

Thanks
Jonah


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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com


On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 17:08, Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Ed,

I see the EPP project as bundling together Eclipse projects in a useful way. For a while CDT has been doing this too for the "stand-alone" C/C++ debugger. The stand-alone C/C++ debugger is only the parts of the IDE needed to provide C/C++ Debugging functionality. The interface is therefore significantly simplified (only Debug perspective, no projects or workspaces and a simplified UI/CLI to the debug configurations). The original design goal of the stand-alone C/C++ debugger was to allow users to do the equivalent of "gdb name_of_exe" but have a graphical interface. So users can (and have been for a while with this package) been able to do "cdtdebug -e name_of_exe" to immediately start a debug session.

Here is a screenshot:
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I hope that starts to answer your questions.

Jonah
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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com


On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 16:54, Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

Could you please clarify.

I can see that a smaller Eclipse is useful for small applications, but once you have an EPP why would you want to add an additional smaller Eclipse?

Alternatively I can see that extra graphical UI could be an asset to the debugger, but that seems like nothing to do with EPP, rather a contribution to JDT Debug.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 21/06/2019 21:38, Jonah Graham wrote:
Hello fellow EPP-devers,

For the last few years the CDT project has been shipping a stripped down Eclipse IDE with just a Debug perspective and some new UI and command line elements. Having a stripped down version has allowed users to have a lighter weight graphical debugger based on Eclipse CDT without using all the other aspects of Eclipse for development.

We would like fellow EPP-devers to consider hosting the Stand-alone debugger in EPP.

I have created Bug 548526 to track this effort and have already done the work of porting it over in this gerrit.

What is the process for taking this forward? I suppose I would first like to float the idea here to find out what you all think.

Thank you,
Jonah
 
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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com

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