Re: Anyone try running Insight/gdbtk thru tcl2perl ?

konovalo wrote:

> Dean Arnold wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone attempted to run Insight
>> http://sources.redhat.com/insight/index.html
>> thru tcl2perl ? I've built an IDE for database development
>> that I'd like to integrate C/C++ and Perl debuggers into;
>> ptkdb is a good start for the latter, I'm hoping Insight/gdbtk
>> can be leveraged to solve the latter problem.
> 
> Very interesting idea indeed.
> But AFAIK gdb does not supports Perl debugging, nor Tcl/Tk debugging.
> 

I'm not concerned about that; I'm trying to aggregate available
debuggers into a single IDE (along w/ my own DBMS debugger/query
tool) ala Eclipse, but wo/ all of Eclipse burden (e.g., Java), and 
hopefully with the ability for more seamless language integration
E.g., to the best of my knowledge, Eclipse JDT and CDT still
don't play together, so you can't debug JNI's yet; I'm hoping to
at least be able to combine C and Perl, along with DBMS debugging,
in a single project.

Hence, my mention of ptkdb, which seems reasonable to attempt
to port. Alas, deeper inspection of gdbtk has shown some
serious stumbling blocks, esp. the mods to gdb code required
for gdbtk. As for Tcl/Tk, I'm throughly ignorant and not qualified
to integrate a debugger for it (also the reason I was
hoping running gdbtk thru tcl2perl would do most of the heavy lifting
of xlation for me).

> Speaking of ptkdb and tcl2perl, I want to mention that there exist 
> 'reverse' module WRT tcl2perl, Tcl::Tk on CPAN.
> Actually it allows even running  Tcl/Tk programs of any complexity from 
> Perl (for example I succesfully tried VTCL and code generated by it, 
> speaking of IDEs)
> Also Tcl::Tk perl module it contains 'tcltkdb' in demo directory which 
> is adoptation of 'ptkdb' to Tcl::Tk. It is not finished though.
> 

Jeff Hobbs has mentioned this on the clp.tk newsgroup recently,
and mentioned Tcl::Tk was "80% compatible", which caused me to
ask if he could enumerate the 20% thats currently missing.
Perhaps you can provide that info ?

Thanks,
Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.

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