Hooking other debuggers

[dpo]

This is a general question, not an issue with your package. In my opinion, the Python world is seriously lacking proper integration between their debuggers and their text editors, and your sublime_debugger is exactly what I had in mind. A similar package for GDB is SublimeGDB and there is SublimeLLDB for LLDB.

I'm not an expert on debuggers but I do need to use them. My question is: how difficult would it be to extract a "generic" debugger interface from sublime_debugger (or any of the others), so users could write simple plugin interfaces to their favorite debugger? My own interest is in Python, but I imagine you could plug in a debugger for any language.

In other words, how specific is sublime_debugger to the Ruby debugger?

Thanks!

[shuky19]

Hi Dpo,

I will start by saying when I started this project I wanted to do the exact same thing: 'Build a unified debugger which can be extended to as much as languages as the open source people will take it'.

As a matter of fact, I have built an interfaces which supposedly decoupled from ruby. Unfortunately, I discovered it is very hard, since I found myself deeply coupled with ruby's debugging gems.

Now, to your question, I do believe a unified debugger can be created. sublime_debugger is a really good starting point, I recommend you to fork this project and start abstracting all the Ruby-Specific behaviors.

I will be more than happy to help you with this journey, but I am extremely busy right now, so it may not be a lot.

Shuky.

[thomthom]

Is this debugger plugin using the ruby-debug-ide?

[shuky19]

No

[thomthom]

I'd be very keen on being able to use that protocol. Sounds like decoupling and making it generic might be the first step. So @dpo and @shuky19 - if any of you are in the progress of anything then let me know. As I'd also be willing to help out. Just don't want to start inventing another wheel.

[shuky19]

Sounds great!

Actually I am doing progress right now, I am adding support for sublime 2, which I think is important before decoupling.

I will commit my partial work in new branch tomorrow.

By the way, I think decoupling wont be that hard, I took a look and it's pretty generic.

Shuky

[thomthom]

Excellent! I'm about to go into holiday season anyway so I'm in no rush. But I often use Sublime and we got the ruby-debug-ide protocol working for SketchUp recently so I thought it'd be neat to hook that up with Sublime. Looking around I found this project which appear to have the interface already so if I can wrap my head around doing some rewiring that'd be great. In any case, just give me a shout when the decoupling begins. :)

[dpo]

I haven't had a chance to make much progress yet.

[shuky19]

I had just finished sublime 2 support.

I think the next step is decoupling.

[shuky19]

By the way, Thomthom, this project is using debugger and byebug gems which are both forks of ruby-debug-ide (they just work on differen versions of ruby).