Re: [Cgdb-devel] New libraries for CGDB

[Bob R. <bo...@br...>]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:42:33PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> Bob Rossi wrote:
>=20
> >Hi,
> >
> >It's been a long time. However, some of the developers of CGDB are ready
> >to start another round of development, which will make CGDB's interface
> >much more VI compatible.
> >
> >There will be several new libraries created to ease the task of
> >implementing CGDB. libkui will be one of them. This stands for "key user
> >interface". It will be the library responsible for catching user
> >commands. For example, when you hit "5Control-wj" in vim, you expect vim
> >to move you down 5 windows. Well, libkui will be responsible for getting
> >these sequences and returning what command the user requested.
> >
> >There will be several other libraries created and talked about in the
> >near future. I am proposing we place all of the new libraries in
> >cgdb/lib. This will be a new directory. Each library will get a
> >directory in cgdb/lib. For example cgdb/lib/kui. Finally, each of these
> >directories will have a src/ and inc/ which implements the library. So,
> >for libkui I will add
> >  cgdb/lib
> >  cgdb/lib/kui
> >  cgdb/lib/kui/inc
> >  cgdb/lib/kui/src
> >
> >Does everyone think this is reasonable? If so, I'll add this
> >infrastructure to the CGDB CVS tree.
> >=20
> >
> Seems reasonable enough to me, but for the time being, I'll keep to porti=
ng.
> However, one thing that may be of interest for cgdb is the container=20
> library I wrote for Jail-ust (also on SourceForge) which I think will=20
> respond to the needs for a hashing implementation discussed here earlier.
> If you check it out like this:
> $ export CVSROOT=3D:pserver:an...@cv...:/cvsroot/jail-ust
> $ cvs login
> anoncvs
> $ cvs co release-libcontain
> you'll get the current version with all of its dependencies (libreplace=
=20
> and the architecture-dependent code)

Sorry for the long delay.

This sounds interesting. Unfortunately, it was written in C++ and cgdb is
written only in C. The reason CGDB is written in C is because we believe
it should be able to port anywhere that GDB does. This way, it can be
used in all the same environments.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi