[fpc-other] Other IDEs

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
>> are things that need to be done if they're not already.  Better debugging
>> support so that applications which are not production can get better
>> "while running" analysis including real-time monitoring and control of
>> execution, variable values and code paths.  I know some of this might not
>> be significant for some people but it will be to others.
>
> The debugging problem is mostly a GDB problem, and both Lazarus and Eclipse
> use GDB. So there is not much to be expected from Eclipse in that field.

Correct. Simply adding new language support into Eclipse is not going
to magically solve all the problems. For example: after adding new
language support, you need to *also* add new debugger support.
Not a trivial task!

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Debugger/how-to.html


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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