Plugin System for DDD as Doctoral Thesis?

[Christian Hattemer]

Hi,

since DDD has all support code for the various debuggers built into the main
binary and that code spilled in a number of places with ugly switch()
blocks I thought it would be nice to create a plugin system and refactor the
support code for each debugger into a separate plugin. This way all the
code for a single debugger would be in one place, separated from unrelated
code. This would make it easier to maintain the main DDD code and the
debugger support code as well as adding support for new debuggers. To do
this one would just write a new plugin, instead of touching dozens of
places adding case labels.

What do you think? Has there been anything going on in this direction in the
past or even right now?

I've already asked a professor about his opinion if this subject could be
discussed in a doctoral thesis. Nothing is definite yet, but it sounds
interesting.

Bye, Chris