On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Andrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use it every day and fall back to node-inspector only when I really need
> to walk stack a lot. At the same time, I think it should not be part of node
> core and exist as npm-installable script. (I'm big fan of "No" [1], but
> unfortunately other core functionality can't be removed without much pain
> today). I started to extract debugger to external module [2] some time ago
> to use it in my vim-based debugger [3] but realised that it's possible to
> reuse debugger client from core by just doing `require('_debugger')`.
>
> My suggestion:
> - remove debugger when full feature complete clone exist in npm
Agreed.
> - make 'node debug' try to call this module if installed and print warning
> if not ("internal debugger has moved to npm. Please do 'npm install
> some-debugger-module-name'")
Agreed on the 'print a warning' part, not so sure about the auto-loading part.
> - document protocol client library and debugger cli language.
It's documented here: http://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/DebuggerProtocol
> Make debugger client language not based on javascript (when you do "continue"
> in
> repl you executing "continue" property read handler).
Don't know about this. If you're creating an external module, then
it's up to you, of course.
> Fix broken functionality (up/down, set breakpoint is broken in debugger, I use
> "debugger" keyword or switch to node-inspector when I need to set
> breakpoint)
That may be part V8 bug, see
https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2981 (though in that
case node-inspector would likely be affected as well.)
> - This would be much easier to do with external module than node
> core. (own release cycle, no need to sign contributor license agreement etc)
>
> I can volunteer to do these steps if there is enough interest to move in
> that direction.
>
> [1] http://vimeo.com/56402326
> [2] https://github.com/sidorares/v8-debugger-protocol
> [3] https://github.com/sidorares/node-vim-debugger
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