Re: Current version of ddd

Russell Shaw <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:57:02 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.debugging.ddd.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 27/02/19 09:00, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: Current version of ddd, Mark Wood-Patrick said (at 5:18am on...:
> 
>> It does not look like there has been an update since 2013, is there a newer
>> version and I'm just looking in the wrong place?
>>
>> I was looking at:
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
> 
> There's no released version that's newer than that.  Ddd has been
> unmaintained for many years.
> 
> Over the years, there have been people that have expressed an interest
> in reviving DDD and modernizing it (newer widget set, modernize the C++
> code and rely on modern libraries like boost).  You might be able to find
> forked versions of the code that has some files updated, but with unfinished
> changes.
> 
> There really is an unfilled niche for what ddd provides, but it would take
> a very dedicated, committed champion to revive ddd, at this point.

It's on my todo list in Qt one day.