[ITP] cgdb

[Nicholas Wourms]

cgf@redhat.com wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 04:26:52PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> 
>>A while ago, I found out about this nifty piece of software in the french
>>Linux magazine (or "Login:" - don't remember which) so I decided to try it 
>>out - and liked it.
>>
>>cgdb is a curses interface for gdb. It's prerry simple to handle for people 
>>who know vi (such as myself) and requires no patching to work on Cygwin - 
>>except the patches needed to the configury to make it compile outside of the
>>source tree.
> 
> 
> This one is vetoed.  Sorry.  If we are going to use a curses interface to gdb
> we should use the one that is built in to gdb.  It's called the "tui".
> 
> The next time I build gdb, I'll look into turning this on to see how it works.

I actually built a recent gdb HEAD ss w/tui.  Tui seemed to work, 
although not all of the border modes show up right in rxvt.  I'm sure 
with some tweaking, even that could be fixed.

Cheers,
Nicholas