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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: Nana? (was:"RFC" : New kdebug)]
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-12-15 21:44:59
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On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:20:47PM +0100, Mirko Sucker wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > What is it ?
> "The" GNU debugging library. 
> > What would we gain from it ?
> Hm. At least a finished implementation of all functionality to debug
> your application:
> - direct gdb support (creating valid breakpoints, for example)
good point
> - support for the syslog daemon
(kdebug has that)

> - tons of different assertions
yes
> - support for different logging mechanisms with definable message handlers
not sure how that is different from kdebug

> ...
> > Who suggested to use it ?
> I did. And some discussion was at Erlangen.
> > Who said he would do the changes ?
> I did. 
> Most of it is done, I currently simply wait for Krash to be released and
> then it will be added. I plan to add it as a subdirectory to kdelibs,
> since nana is a dynamic library (at least we will use one of it).
> Until now I planned not to change kdebug much, but possibly it is better
> to replace it, since most features of it are directly supported by nana.

As I said, there is one _major_ feature of kdebug I can't see in nana :
the equivalent of debug areas.
Being able to debug the output of library Xyz or class Abc
when debugging your app.

> Does anybody know how far kdebug is used outside the KDE repository?
Well so much has changed since kde-1 anyway :-)

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