From: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>
Date: 2008-06-27T01:10:34+09:00
Subject: Re: v1.9 -rprofile -rdebug errors

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:12 AM, r <rocky.bernstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 9:24 pm, Jeremy Kemper <jer...@bitsweat.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 1.9 lacks profiling and debugging, currently, AFAIK.  I knowruby-debug
>> > doesn't work on it.
>>
>> The latest ruby-debug does support 1.9, but it's incomplete yet.
>>
>> jeremy
>
> ruby-debug doesn't work in 1.9; my estimate is that it will be a while
> before it works anywhere well as it does on 1.8.

It does work, but is in, uh, 'alpha' form :)  I've been using it for a while.

> A summer student was very interested in making it work on 1.9 via
> Google 2008 Summer of Code and the Ruby Foundation, but the other
> mentors and administrator felt there were other projects which were
> much more important. So that summer student is instead working on
> another project in Python.

That's too bad. I think it's a very important project.

jeremy