| Eckhard Lehmann 2006-09-27, 4:05 am |
| I want to push this again. They have such a thing in Python:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pdb.html.
We have it - but only inofficially. It should be easy to include this
patch in the core (with adjusted naming, maybe). Please comment or
prove me wrong..
Eckhard
Eckhard Lehmann wrote:
> Then I found Atkdebugger, an extension which Arthur Trzewik created
> back in 2004 (http://wiki.tcl.tk/8395,
> http://www.xdobry.de/atkdebugger/index.html). He created the
> atkdebugger extension and also a patch for Tcl to make stepwise
> execution and breakpoints happen - a feature that is really nice and
> exactly what I wanted to have. Without the Atkdebugger extension, the
> patched Tcl code behaves like before, but with the extension it is
> possible to implement advanced debugging, together with Tcl's
> introspection features.
>
> Now my question: is there a chance that this patch goes in Tcl8.5, if
> proposed as TIP? Reference implementation (although for 8.4) is already
> there in form of the patch and it would be a really  and
> outstanding feature. I'd love to see it... and I can imagine that I am
> not the only one.
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