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[platform-debug-dev] Feedback Required: Global enable/disable of breakpoints
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Debug Implementors,
We are looking into the feature described by the following bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=10078
The feature is to allow the user to quickly "turn off/skip" all
breakpoints, without having to disable all breakpoints. Effectively, this
disables the breakpoint manager, or takes breakpoints "offline". The user
can then easily "turn on" breakpoints again. Thus, if you have a
collection of breakpoints - some enabled, some not - this state will be
maintained. The feature is also useful programatically to implement other
features such as avoiding breakpoints during a "run to line" operation.
The implementation of this feature (or, at least one implementation we are
choosing), requires debug implementors to be aware of a new state on the
breakpoint manager (enabled/disabled). Thus, as breakpoints are added and
changed, debug targets must honor the new setting on the breakpoint
manager to take advantage of this new feature. A target that ignores this
will appear "broken" to the user. Thus, althought there are no breaking
API changes, or binary compatibility issues, this would be a behaviour
change.
The question is: are debug implementors willing to implement this new
feature for 3.0? Or should we toss it?
Darin
