Re: DDD startup errors (when launchind perl inferior debugger)

[Andrew Gaylard]

David Letcher wrote:
> Andrew,
> My problems stem from running DDD 3.3.9 against both 5.8 and 5.6 of Perl.  
>
> DDD seems to be ok with 5.8, but as you say, changes to the command set
> occurred and as such DDD 3.3.9 is not backward compatible (with Perl 5.6).  
>
> Do you plan to modify DDD to check the version of Perl and assign the
> appropriate command set?
>
>  
> - cheers David Letcher
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> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2004 5:27 PM
> To: David Letcher; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: DDD startup errors (when launchind perl inferior debugger)
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having troubles getting DDD to start and run the Perl debugger
> > correctly.
>
>
> Yes, this is a bug.  The perl debugger changed from 5.6.x to 5.8.x,
> which caused DDD to become unusable with perl 5.8.x.  Although I 
> thought that the problems were solved in DDD 3.3.9, there are still
> several very painful issues which make perl debugging unusable.
>
> I've done some work on this since 3.3.9, but it isn't 100% finished 
> yet.  Sorry....
>
> Andrew

OK, I've just commited my changes to fix several problems when
debugging perl.  Without these, ddd is pretty much useless when
used with the perl debugger.

If you like, you can do a CVS build, and give it a whirl and let
me know how it goes.

None of these fixes will support perl-5.6.x and older -- sorry.
It's just too old and too different.  If you desperately need to
use perl versions before 5.8 with ddd, then you're best off
sticking with ddd-3.3.8.

Cheers,
Andrew.