From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 21 8:52:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3F037B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13Qt8Y-000Ez3-00; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:05:18 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA02095; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:05:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:05:18 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: j mckitrick Cc: The Clark Family , David Kelly , narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000821160518.B20036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200008151718.e7FHIbb13082@mail.hiwaay.net> <20000821144137.D13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000821144137.D13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org j mckitrick wrote: > i just read a comment that *nix doesn't even have good, intuitive debugger. > all there really are are wrappers for ancient command line utils. So you're going back to an operating system which is basically just a GUI sitting on top of that ancient command line operating system, DOS? Anyway, GDB works fine for me. If you want a graphical version, writing a front-end for that seems like the most sensible thing to do. GDB probably does most things you could want from a debugger, a front-end just makes that eas(y|ier), and I imagine writing a debugger from scratch would be pretty complicated. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message