[Savannah-register-public] [task #5645] Submission of Gnome GDB

[Sven Herzberg]

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                 Summary: Submission of Gnome GDB
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: herzi
            Submitted on: Monday 06/12/06 at 14:40
         Should Start On: Monday 06/12/06 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Thursday 06/22/06 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Full Name:
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  Gnome GDB

System Group Name:
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  gnome-gdb

Type:
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  non-GNU software & documentation

License:
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  GNU Lesser General Public License

Description:
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  Gnome GDB is about developing a new GUI for the GNU Debugger (gdb). It uses
the GDB/MI interface and is supposed to become more a graphical debugger that
a frontend for gdb.

Explanation of the last sentence: I see many GUIs for the GNU debugger (ddd,
xxgdb, etc.) but they all just look like a frontend to the (still very
complex and very powerfull) command line interface of the GNU debugger.

Gnome GDB is supposed to try a different approach: develop a good graphical
user interface for a debugger and then try to implement the necessary
functions using the GDB/MI interface. This might lead to a more intuitive and
appealing user interface for debugging.

To make the application really useful, we're adding features only one at a
time so we can make sure that the current feature fits well into the design
and layout of the application.

Current state:
I've been starting this project some months ago and came up with a working
interface to GDB last week. Right now the application is able to attach to a
process and to step through the instructions while displaying the call stack.
Features that are supposed to be added within the near future will be break
point management and starting applications from the debugger (that's what I
need to find my current bug).

Other Software Required:
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  This software has got compile-time dependencies on:
glib-2.0
gtk+-2.0
libwnck-1.0

And it has got an additional runtime dependency on:
gdb

Other Comments:
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  Source code is available from
http://www.blaubeermuffin.de/stuff/gnome-gdb-0.0.1.tar.gz








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