[ODE] Re: debugging

[Jon Watte (ODE)]

Thanks for the feedback.

Having worked with GDB for a long time, including on the inside of it, I 
am convinced that nothing + GDB will come close to the usability of 
MSVC. We need a fresh start -- that's what the rant is about.

Cheers,

			/ h+

erwin at erwincoumans.com wrote:
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> I mostly agree, and I find Visual Studio environment for debugging 
> superior for workflow.
> Having said this, perhaps Eclipse + CDT GUI might improve the GDB 
> situation. Eclipse + CDT + GDB looks 'promising'. If you bother, perhaps 
> you should give it a try, and update your rant ?
> Erwin Coumans
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> Jon Watte (ODE) writes:
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>> What my point is is that, for me, and everyone I've worked with, the 
>> MSVC debugger is so much more productive than MinGW/Cygwin that anyone 
>> trying the latter is just wasting their money. I can't really take 
>> anyone saying that GDB is more useable than MSVC for general 
>> application development and debugging seriously. (Each of the tools 
>> has some tragic flaw, for sure, but GDB has more of them and a much 
>> less responsive UI)
>> I couldn't care less about the politics. Well, actually, I do care a 
>> little bit: read my rant about UNIX debugging at:
>> http://www.mindcontrol.org/~hplus/misc/unix-debugger.html
>> Cheers,
>>             / h+
>> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
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>>>> MinGW/Cygwin isn't really an option for serious development on Windows.
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>>> AHEM.  Or so The Man would like you to believe.
>>
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