So what would be debugger status? Do you encourage users to report
errors / send PR with fixes or it stays frozen until fully deprecated?

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> The built-in debugger is a major pain to keep working and some
>>> informal polling suggests that no one really uses it or is even aware
>>> that it exists.
>>>
>>> I'm toying with the idea of dropping it altogether and replacing it
>>> with some hooks for projects like node-inspector and node-webkit-agent
>>> because that's what everyone seems to be using anyway.
>>>
>>> Before I go ahead, I would like to know whether there are people out
>>> there that would be negatively affected by such a change.
>>>
>>> If you are or if you disagree with the approach outlined above for
>>> other reasons, now is the time to speak up!  :-)
>>
>> Okay, so the outcome seems to be that there are a handful of users.
>> I'll keep the debugger around for a little longer but I'm going to
>> apply the following changes:
>>
>> 1.  Update the stability level to '0 - Deprecated'.  No bug reports or
>> pull requests accepted anymore, it is what it is.
>>
>> 2.  Remove the tests.  They're really flaky anyway.
>>
>> 3.  Medium/long-term break out the debugger into a separate module.
>>
>> Thanks for taking the time to reply everyone.
>
> After some more discussion, we've decided to keep the debugger around
> for a little longer.  The tests may still end up getting scrapped
> unless someone gets around to rewriting them.
>
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