RE: DDD startup errors (when launchind perl inferior debugger)

[ag]

> Andrew,
> My problems stem from running DDD 3.3.9 against both 5.8 and 5.6 of
> Perl.  
> 
> DDD seems to be ok with 5.8, but as you say, changes to the command set
> occurred and as such DDD 3.3.9 is not backward compatible (with Perl
> 5.6).  
> 
> Do you plan to modify DDD to check the version of Perl and assign the
> appropriate command set?

I'm not that keen to do this.  An easier approach is to do what the
NEWS file says:

- The perl version supported by DDD is now 5.8.x.  The perl debugger
  changed between perl 5.6.x and perl 5.8.0, which made this update necessary.
  This change is not backwards-compatible.  If it is not possible to upgrade
  your perl version to 5.8.x or newer, then you can simply install the file
  "perl5db.pl" from a recent perl distribution into your old perl tree.

So I'd recommend replacing your perl5db file if you aren't able to
ugrade your perl installation.

Andrew.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2004 5:27 PM
> To: David Letcher; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: DDD startup errors (when launchind perl inferior debugger)
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am having troubles getting DDD to start and run the Perl debugger
> > correctly.
> 
> Yes, this is a bug.  The perl debugger changed from 5.6.x to 5.8.x,
> which caused DDD to become unusable with perl 5.8.x.  Although I 
> thought that the problems were solved in DDD 3.3.9, there are still
> several very painful issues which make perl debugging unusable.
> 
> I've done some work on this since 3.3.9, but it isn't 100% finished 
> yet.  Sorry....
> 
> Andrew
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