From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-11-13T22:26:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6310] Re: Source Navigator and Ruby

"Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM" <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

> # Anyway, so far the results are encouraging (if you like the Source
> # Navigator style of interface). 
> 
> Do you happen to like it? Is it something that you would be reasonably 
> happy to use for serious development work over the medium-to-long term?

I frankly don't know. I normally swear by emacs, but I'm going to try
SN on the next big Ruby project and see.

> I noticed the sourcenav download had a *huge* number of files; out of 
> curiosity, are you doing more that modifying some 
> configuration/specification files that specify auxiliary programs to run 
> to return Ruby-specific data?

You modify one user-level configuration file, and then write an
external program which scans Ruby source and populates the SN
database.

> I also noticed that the URL you gave mentioned that "Source-Navigator 
> works with the Insight GUI interface for GDB". Do you happen to know from 
> your digging around if the Insight GUI is an optional piece or an integral 
> piece of Source-Navigator? 

No idea: I haven't used debuggers much in the last 5 years.


Dave