[Bashdb-devel] Getting ddd to understand breakpoints better

[R. B. <ro...@pa...>]

I looked a bit more at the DDD code to set/remove breakpoints. 

With quite a bit of work for what seems like a simple thing, I've been
able to get this to show that little stop sign indicator icon to
appear. However more work will probably be needed to get this to
work flawlessly, and even more work to make it release ready.

Basically the easiest thing to do is to make the "show break" output
look more like gdb, and tell ddd to use gdb's breakpoint parsing when
debugging a bash script.  I think this a better approach than
rewriting the ddd's break parsing for bash which is what is attempted
(poorly) in the existing ddd patch.

In CVS I've committed the revised breakpoint output. That portion of
reference manual will have to get revised, and there will have to be
some changes to the ddd patches. 

Finally, I'll also have to add a mode to the debugger to always report
full file names and set up ddd to ensure that that mode is in effect.
(And this probably isn't everything.)

In short, this will probably happen. Probably not soon though.  But if
others or as others start working on this it might happen sooner. You
say you have little programming ability? Okay, well there's always 
revising the reference manual...