Re: A new maintainer for DDD

Could support win32 (not through cygwin)?
Since we've got gnuplot win32 and mingw32,  think it should not be
difficult to support win32.

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Peter Wainwright
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings to the DDD community.
>
> As you know, Jose Maria has had to retire from the maintainership to
> make time for other things.  I am glad that he has agreed that I should
> take over.
>
> My current day job is in bioelectromagnetics, simulating the interaction
> of electromagnetic fields with humans.  This has required me to develop
> programs in Fortran, C and C++ on linux workstations and clusters.
> These never seem to work first time - hence I was grateful to discover
> DDD.
>
> At the moment, my own efforts are directed towards developing a new GTK
> interface to replace the venerable Motif front end of DDD.  I hope to
> have some working "alpha" code available early in 2009.  Beyond this
> cosmetic change, however, I have various items on my "wishlist".
>
> As Rocky Bernstein recently pointed out on the DDD list, there are a
> number of gdb-like debuggers for other languages (zsh, ksh, ruby...),
> but it is not as easy as it should be to interface these with DDD.  The
> present interface to the inferior debuggers involves multiple switch
> statements (case BASH, case DBX, case GDB...) scattered through the
> code.  It would be helpful to have a more modular approach to this so
> that we could add new languages more easily.
>
> One thing which would make my life much easier would be support for
> multi-thread/multi-process debugging such as I believe is offered by the
> commercial product TotalView. I've recently had to debug MPI programs
> which I have done with multiple instances of DDD - It's not pretty. A
> multi-process DDD would I think be be a useful (and ambitious) project.
>
> However, little can be achieved without a fresh influx of talent to the
> project. In order to attract new developers it will be necessary to have
> some challenging yet attainable targets. Few people are willing to sign
> up just for bug-fixing. So, I'd like to canvas additional ideas from
> users on the list, as well as asking for volunteers!
>
> There are still bugs in DDD, so bug-fixing should continue (what is the
> Latin for "who will debug the debugger"?). The current releases of DDD
> direct users to the bug-ddd mailing list. However, due to the severe
> lack of manpower many bugs cannot be fixed immediately, and after a
> while are forgotten. On the new official site at Savannah, we have a
> modern bug-tracker http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=ddd
> and I would suggest that this is a better place to record issues so they
> can have a more permanent existence.
>
> Various enhancements to DDD have been implemented since the last release
> in 2005. To consolidate these, a new release is needed. There have been
> various 3.3.12-testx releases (test6 being the most recent), but the big
> 3.3.12 was never actually released. I shall be looking into this in the
> next few months...
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Peter Wainwright
>
> P.S. Unfortunately "Peter Wainwright" is not a globally unique
> identifier. Just to clarify, I'm not the author of "Pro Perl", "Pro
> Apache" etc.
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