[Lazarus] Playing with debuggers

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Joost van der Sluis via lazarus wrote:

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> Op 14-09-2021 om 14:26 schreef Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus:
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>> On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Joost van der Sluis via lazarus wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm playing with several debuging-concepts. And I want to share this 
>>> one with you.
>>>
>>> I've created a new Lazarus-debugger LazDabDebugger that can work with 
>>> FpdServer. It depends on a package (LazDebugExtensionIntf) that adds 
>>> another way of showing debugging variables inside Lazarus.
>>>
>>> I can write tons of texts about the background and possibilities. But 
>>> for now I'm just curious at your input.
>>>
>>> Look at the screencast or install the debugger, and share your 
>>> opinion(s).
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>> Impressive job...
>> 
>> Looking at the screencast, I think changing the current interface with the
>> one presented in the screencast would be a definite improvement; 
>> regardless of the backend used...
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> Yes, but that needs work on the backends. And I think we can better 
> improve and fine-tune the interface first. At this moment this is easily 
> done. Once there are multiple backends, that becomes more work.

I think you indeed better fine-tune first. It could be that the fine-tuning
necessitates changes in the API, so better to do this with 1 backend. Once
the API is stable, expand to other backends.

Michael.