Phoenix.pm: Perl Debugger

[Doug Miles]

Mark Pease wrote:

> Frooninckx Craig - cfroon wrote:
> 
>>I've coded myself into a corner and now have to give into accepting the fact
>>that I need a debugger to work myself out of the corner.  I feel great
>>frustration with the perl debugger, getting around a very complex set of
>>object oriented packages, is there another option??  Does another debugger
>>exist that (forgive me for even thinking this...) has a GUI so I don't have
>>to learn new commands in a jam?
>>
>>
> 
> I use three different "GUI" debuggers. The first is the Perl TK
> Debugger. You need to have Tk installed, but I use this the most. It's
> free and available on CPAN.


BTW, the name is Devel::ptkdb.  I'll second this.  ptkdb rocks!


> The 2ed is Komodo from ActiveState. I use this in the Perl class I teach
> at Chandler-Gilbert CC. It's slooowww and cost real money unless you are
> not using it to do for profit development.
> 
> The last is a system I developed that I call VIGOR. It uses the VIM
> editor (thus you can develop with VIM and VIGOR :-) I hope to present a
> paper at OSCON this year on this system.


And maybe your favorite Perl Mongers group after? :)


> I hope that this is of some help!
>