On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Op 2010-10-13 13:42, Paul Ishenin het geskryf:
are open. We just need someone who will work on debugger support at
least 10-15 hours per week. Those parts of lazarus on which someone
constantly invest time (like source editor or codetools) are good (even
compared to commercial products).
It's just amazing that everybody known that the debugger support in Lazarus
and FPC absolutely sucks!
Why do you say "it sucks" ?
It works, kind of. It depends on your expectations. I successfully debug
applications. No, I don't expect useful info from the tooltips, so your
particular problem doesn't bother me.
The Delphi debugger "sucks" as well:
I can debug my application exactly once.
After that, the IDE just hangs on the second run. Never fails, 100%
reproducible. That bothers me more than the Lazarus tooltip failing in some
cases.
I try to live with it, even though I payed many thousands of EUR for the
Delphi 7 license.
Like the saying goes: "you get what you pay for".
This is always so. Open source works because developers have an itch, and
they scratch it. You have a different itch from the other developers.
Nobody will scratch your itch for you, unless they have the same itch.
So please don't try and imply that I am one of those "leachers" that just
use software and don't contribute.
No-one implies this. But there is no escaping the observation that
there is no-one who wants to maintain the debugger, and since the
developers are volunteers, they do what they want to do. One cannot
blame them for that.
Michael.
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