FW: DDD and Telnet

[T Michael Turney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnaud Desitter [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:42 AM
> To: T Michael Turney
> Subject: Re: DDD and Telnet
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Michael Turney" <address@hidden>
> To: "Arnaud Desitter" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 5:14 PM
> Subject: RE: DDD and Telnet
> 
> 
> > 
> > I was going to make the offer to the project team when I
> > had something working, but didn't know what the interest
> > level is.
> 
> I don't know either. You did not explain what telnet support
> means.
> Would you mind posting a description to the mailing list ?
> 

I first got exposed to DDD while working as an FAE for
Monta Vista Software.  A "nice-to-have" for a tool in
the embedded market is the ability to telnet to the target
under test.  While there is no pressing reason why the
telnet window needs to be part of DDD, I have a sponsor
who thinks it would be a good idea for his customer-base.

I believe part of the thinking here is to keep all of the
target test tools under the control of a single GUI.  Since
I am between consulting projects I thought I would take a
stab at this request.

> > I should add that I am working with version 3.3.1, the
> > SRPM that shipped with RHL9.  I started with 3.3.8 from
> > sourceforge but we decided we wanted the flexibility of
> > being able to work with pre-3.x gcc.
> 
> Weird requirements. There are multiple bug fixes in the more
> recent versions. I suppose you could port your work later
> and provide a patch against the CVS repository.
> 

My personal preference is to work with the latest released bits,
which is why I started with 3.3.8.  What I have done to date I
really view as throw-away, just trying to learn how the bloody
thing works.  Since my sponsor's customer-base is in the states,
we are targeting RHL distributions to run the tool on.  The attraction
to 3.3.1 was that it shipped with: RHL7.3, RHL8 and RHL9.

Questions...

1) Is there any technical reason why a TELNETAgent class, derived
from TTYAgent, would interfer with the GDBAgent class?

2) The ReadyForCmd handler is never added for the GDBAgent (3.3.1), but is
called, oversight? bug? just the way its supposed to be?

3) Are design documents available, especially for the Agent class
hierarchy?

Cheers,
T.mike

> Regards,
> 
> > Cheers,
> > T.mike
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Arnaud Desitter [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:38 AM
> > To: T Michael Turney
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: DDD and Telnet
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Do you plan to contribute your changes to the project ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "T Michael Turney" <address@hidden>
> > Newsgroups: gmane.comp.debugging.ddd.general
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:01 PM
> > Subject: DDD and Telnet
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have been working with DDD for a couple of years now
> > > and recently was approached to add a telnet interface
> > > to the tool.
> > > 
> > > After working with the source for about 1 month
> > > I have a couple of questions...
> > > 
> > > 1) The approach I am taking is to create a TELNETAgent
> > > class, similar to GDBAgent.  Has anybody attempted to
> > > add a telnet interface?
> > > 
> > > 2) Is there any design-level documentation available?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > T.mike
> > 
> > 
>