Re: How can I setup a dev environment for OTRS?

Thanks, I'll look into it. Apache vs private HTTP/CGI server is the
difference I was curious about but I hope will manage to clarify it from
the guide as it was also recommended from another direction.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Martin Gruner <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Bogdan,
>
> it's been a while :-/. AFAIR (http://www.epic-ide.org/guide/ch06.php),
> it may not even run inside apache but spawn a local HTTP/CGI server that
> you can use to run OTRS inside. Just try it.
>
> Regards, mg
>
> Am 11.09.12 09:26, schrieb Bogdan Iosif:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 10x. When you tried this, did you have the debugger connect to Apache
> HTTPD
> > or were you able to somehow execute OTRS's scripts in a more direct way?
> As
> > far as I understood, the Perl interpreter runs in HTTPD's process, via
> > mod_perl, so a debugger would need to attach to HTTPD in order to work.
> >
> > I understand your point about not practically needing the above, but it
> > would give me a warm fuzzy feeling to see it working and know I can do
> that
> > for the worst case scenario.
> >
> > /bogdan
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Martin Gruner <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >>  Hi Bogdan,
> >>
> >> AFAICT you can use Eclipse with the EPIC perl editor that also includes
> a
> >> graphical interface to the Perl debugger, giving you full execution
> >> control. I tried that once, but as Mike said it is not really needed in
> >> everyday work.
> >>
> >> Best regards, mg
> >>
> >> Am 11.09.12 09:09, schrieb Bogdan Iosif:
> >>
> >> Thanks for the input.
> >>
> >> I was "afraid" of that. I'm familiar with this type of debugging from
> >> writing shell scripts running under Jenkins but I've never done
> debugging
> >> like that for a code base as large as OTRS seems to be.
> >>
> >> With shell scripts it was, kind of, simple to assess if the code is
> valid
> >> because I knew exactly where the script will be invoked from and my only
> >> concern was to explore the context of the call (mainly env vars). With
> >> these Perl scrips, without an IDE that halts execution on a breakpoint
> or a
> >> possibility to statically explore all callers on an object's method, I
> find
> >> it hard to imagine how I can ensure a change I make on some of the code
> >> OTRS ships with will not break some code paths or, worse, produce
> >> undesirable side effects.
> >>
> >> I assume you mean Apache HTTPD's STDERR. I'll try to setup Fred. I hope
> >> this info is still valid (
> >> http://lists.otrs.org/pipermail/dev/2007-October/001728.html) because I
> >> haven't found much else in the form of a guide on how to use / install
> it=
>
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