[Qt-creator] Open Source debugger ZeroBUGS

[Peter Kümmel]

On 23.08.2012 20:05, André Pönitz wrote:
> 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...)

Yes, seems development is stalled.

>
>> 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.

I only had gdb and LLVM in mind: gdb is several decades old
and LLDB is developed by Apple.

Peter