[Bashdb-pydb] Release 1.18 probably the week of Sept 25-29

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

If you can test from CVS please do. If you need a candidate tarball,
contact me. New to this release is thread debugging. It is
experimental and optional; to use you need to specifiy the --threading
option or add to your program: 
    import pydb; 
     set_trace(add_threaddbg=True)

Here are the NEWS entries for this release.

* Start thread debugging: 
    info thread [thread-name] [terse|verbose]    - show thread info
    thread [thread-name [thread-name]...]  - switches thread
    qt                                     - quit current thread
    can set a breakpoint on a specific thread name.

* GDB-like signal handling. Some code based on Matt Fleming's 2006
  Summer-of-Code project. Gdb's "handle" and "signal" commands.

* Add hard kill. May be needed for thread debugging.

* Fix bug in handling temporary breakpoints (tbreak) caused by the
  difference in semantics between pdb's 'clear' command and pdb's
  (which calls this 'delete' and has a different meaning for 'clear').

* 'examine' command now shows object's instance variables.

* add gdb 'FILE' command: allow loading/running a file from within
  pydb. (The old pydb from ddd had it too.)