[Bashdb-devel] bashdb release for bash 3.0 ?

[R. Bernstein]

Nicholas Brown writes:
 > Does bashdb support bash 3.0?

I have some changes on my local disk. I'm not sure how to handle in
bashdb CVS. Depending on the consensus of other bashdb developers, it
will go there one way or another.

 > If so, will a standalone release of it for bash 3.0 be made?

Sure. I don't when though. Probably the first thing to do is get it in
public CVS. If someone else wants to lead the development for a
release, I wouldn't mind. Right now I've been working heavily on other
projects like libcdio (http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/ and a
debugger for GNU make http://freshmeat.net/projects/remake/)

 > Though reading the post to bashdb-devel on 2003-10-23 suggests things don't 
 > quite work. 

I guess you are referring to this from 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3855720&forum_id=12061 :

   So of course, I rely on the regression tests, and although most of
   these work in bash 3.0 not all do, notably those which fail show
   what the upcoming command to be executed is which is used when there
   are multiple statements on a line.  (I wrote Chet Ramey on this but
   haven"t received any comment.)

 > Have these issues been resolved?

No. But showing the last command to disambiguate where you are in a
multi-statement line is a nicety not a necessity. Alas, it's something
though that can't be fixed in the bash debugger code but has to be
done in bash 3.0.

Chet Ramey writes:

  [with respect to shipping the debugger with bash]
  > Eventually, yes, though independent development will continue.

Okay, if that's what Chet writes, I guess that's what will happen. ;-)

  > As far as I know.  Rocky is on the bash-testers list, 

Funny, I haven't been getting any bash-testers mail. Perhaps the
bash-testers list owner can check on on whether there's someone by the
name rocky subscribed. I don't recall getting any bash-testers
e-mail. The alpha announcement was forwarded to me. 

  > and I didn't hear anything back from him regarding any of the alpha or beta 
releases.

There is a communication problem somewhere. I thought communicated the
problem I encountered in alpha described above. I thought it weird but
not uncommon for bash not to get word back on it. Also, I don't recall
receiving a beta release announcement or a bash 3.0 announcement.

Is there a public bash-testers mailing list archive somewhere?