That's just not the case. The debugger in PHP 3 would not work at all in PHP 4 and would need a complete rewrite. So, being cynical you might say that someone should have written a debugger for PHP 4 and the fact that nobody did was the conspiracy, but it makes no sense to say it was removed for conspiracy reasons. I mean if the PHP 3 debugging code worked with PHP 4, then you could just take the code from PHP 3 and use it. It's not like it is deleted from CVS.
-Rasmus On Sun, 12 May 2002, Michael Kimsal wrote: > Jose Leon wrote: > > > > > It would be nice that php itself incoporates a system to debug php > > programs, like in PHP 3, in that way a development tool for php would > > be enabled to debug modifying the php.ini with debug.enabled=true and > > listening to a port. The system will work on any php distribution > > because will be part of php itself. Why the debugger was removed from > > PHP 3? > > > I think it's pretty obvious it was removed during the PHP4 > development so that Zend would have a 'value add' to sell later. > > That's the cynical part of me answering, obviously, and I've > never heard an answer one way or another why it was removed, > but the timing seems pretty remarkable. > > Michael Kimsal > http://www.logicreate.com > 734-480-9961 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
