From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-12T22:16:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] breakpoint.rb -- now with remote debugging

On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 10:48:21 PM, Gavin wrote:

> 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?

I can.  The early unreleased dev-utils/debug and the original
breakpoint.rb were independent works solving the same problem.
Florian went further than I did and I slurped it right up.  So there's
no difference between them, based on what you've quoted.

Now Florian's gone further again, and implemented remote debugging.
That will eventually make its way into dev-utils/debug as well.

Cheers,
Gavin