Re: Windows dev environment

[Adam Antium <adam0antium gmail com>]

Thanks for the interesting replies @Vasily Galkin and @Kai. Perhaps then I should ask the wider question, what tools are you using on whichever platform you prefer? And are you using any debugging tools at all for any type of bug, or just following the method described by @Vasily Galkin for everything?

Regards,

Adam

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 12:01 PM Vasily Galkin <galkin-vv yandex ru> wrote:

Hello.
I've some limited experience in debugging some meld problems. I found that there is a some share of bugs where interactive debugging wasn't useful for investigating problem. This includes:
- Problems depenedent on stratup method/environment. For example some problems were specific to starting meld not directly or via IDE but only via `git mergetool`
- Performance problems. Introducing debuggers/profilers affects performance itself
- GUI input-events related problems. Interrupting app with switching to debugger produces extra focus-out/focus-in events, which can be confusing.

So, for cases listed above I often just adding temporarily print() or logging to file inside source code instead of using interactive debugger.
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Regards, Vasily

> Hey,
>
> I'm wondering what tools people are using in windows for a development environment when they are working on Meld?
>
> I was about to try to get a convenient setup going in VS Code (which I only recently started using)
>
> for debugging etc., but I thought I'd check if anyone had any strong opinions or experiences that could be useful.
>
> Regards,
> Adam