Phoenix.pm: Perl Debugger

Thomas Whitney whitneyt at agcs.com
Thu Jan 17 17:55:44 CST 2002


I prefer the good old print STDERR "I am in method x $var\n" :-)

Tom

edelweiss wrote:

> Have you tried good old IEBEYBALL ?  =)
>
> Tony
>
> Doug Miles wrote:
>
> > 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!
> > >




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