Re: [anjuta-devel] Sharing code between Nemiver and Anjuta

[Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de>]

Hi all!

> How about doing it the Unix way™ and use Nemiver as THE Anjuta debugger,
> probably by providing some means of communication (D-Bus, ...) between
> them?

I though about this a while and indeed it could work in some way:

* Anjuta would start a nemiver instance with some kind of --no-gui
option that would provide the backend for gdb and the dbus interface

* The dbus interface would work in two ways:
 - Anjuta would sent commands to nemiver like it does to gdb at the
moment. It would also very for certain information (Info about
variables, breakpoints etc.)
 - Nemiver would itself sent some command to anjuta like the current
line that we are at or things like that.

I am afraid though that the dbus interface might become kinda complex
especially when it comes to transfering data in the sense of
breakpoints, watchpoints, variables. But I don't know enough about dbus
to be sure. And it would require additions to the nemiver codebase but
those might be useful for other tools, too, for example a new way of
remote debugging.

I definitly agree with Sébastian that reading the Nemiver code could
help us understand certain problems of the anjuta debugger better.

Regards,
Johannes

Regards,
Johannes