So for those of us who exclusively use the built-in debugger, now that it is deprecated, what should we be using instead? I'm not aware of another CLI node debugger.
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 5:18:05 PM UTC-5, Ben Noordhuis wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ben Noordhuis > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Ben Noordhuis > > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > >> The built-in debugger is a major pain to keep working and some > >> informal polling suggests that no one really uses it or is even aware > >> that it exists. > >> > >> I'm toying with the idea of dropping it altogether and replacing it > >> with some hooks for projects like node-inspector and node-webkit-agent > >> because that's what everyone seems to be using anyway. > >> > >> Before I go ahead, I would like to know whether there are people out > >> there that would be negatively affected by such a change. > >> > >> If you are or if you disagree with the approach outlined above for > >> other reasons, now is the time to speak up! :-) > > > > Okay, so the outcome seems to be that there are a handful of users. > > I'll keep the debugger around for a little longer but I'm going to > > apply the following changes: > > > > 1. Update the stability level to '0 - Deprecated'. No bug reports or > > pull requests accepted anymore, it is what it is. > > > > 2. Remove the tests. They're really flaky anyway. > > > > 3. Medium/long-term break out the debugger into a separate module. > > > > Thanks for taking the time to reply everyone. > > The pull request for steps #1 and #2: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/6507 > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
