[Qt-creator] Open Source debugger ZeroBUGS

André Pönitz andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu Aug 23 20:05:44 CEST 2012


On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:16:25PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> While reading the LLDB thread I had the idea to
> mention here that ZeroBUGS was open sourced last year:
>      http://www.zerobugs.org/
> 
> It's a one-man-show, so the code base couldn't be gigantic.
> History of this project could be read in the blog post.

  "ZeroBUGS is a visual debugger for Linux, a project that
   ate up all of my spare time between 2004 and 2008."

Four or five years of "all spare time" can be quite a bit.
And the result is something that supposedly runs on Linux
(which I couldn't verify, since my distro doesn't ship
the packages it depends on...)

> It's interesting to see that you don't need hundreds
> of mean-years to write a debugger from scratch.

Nobody mentioned hundred man-years. But having something
usable, cross-platform takes a while.

Andre'



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