From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2004-10-12T21:48:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] breakpoint.rb -- now with remote debugging

On Oct 11, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Florian Gross wrote:
> Breakpoint.rb is a small library that lets you set breakpoints by 
> calling a method. When executed, a breakpoint causes an interactive 
> ruby session to be spawned with the current context. This makes it 
> especially useful for debugging because Ruby has powerful built-in 
> capabilities for exploring object environments. (Kernel#caller, 
> Object#inspect, Object#respond_to?, Kernel#local_variables, 
> Object#instance_variables and so on.)

Because I'm too lazy to fully inspect both packages, can you describe 
how this differs from dev-utils/debug?