Re: setting breakpoints in Kawa code?

[Dominique Boucher <dominique dot boucher at nuecho dot com>]

Hi Per, 

SchemeScript is still working, although not actively maintained. There is already basic support for breakpoints in Scheme code. But it's not closely tied to the Scheme code. I don't remember the details, though. I will have to investigate a bit. 

Dominique 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Per Bothner" <per@bothner.com>
To: "kawa mailing list" <kawa@sourceware.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 2:44:47 AM
Subject: setting breakpoints in Kawa code?

This is a follow-up to the "Kawa debugging with Eclipse" thread from April 2014. 

I recently tried debugging Kawa using NetBeans remote debugging. I ran into a 
problem I've seen before: You can't set a breakpoint in Scheme code, because NetBeans 
doesn't see it as a source file. Or rather it can map from a JVM (.class) location to 
a source file, but not the other way round. 

Any suggestions for setting breakpoints in Kawa? 
I know about the SchemeWay plugin for Eclipse. Is that still being maintained and working? 

This isn't urgent for myself, but it would be helpful to write up some debugging 
hints and how-tos for the Kawa manual. 

It would also be nice if we could debug using Emacs. However, Helmut says Slime 
isn't really functional at this point. 

BTW As a separate but related project, I've been playing with console and terminal 
emulators. I created a gitbug project: 
https://github.com/PerBothner/JWebTerminal 
This is something I implemented while working at Oracle. I also wrote a Kawa 
interface, but I wasn't able to open-source that cause of the mix of Oracle 
and my code. I'm currently re-implementing the core of JWebTerminal in JavaScript, 
to make it portable to multiple environments. My opinion is that the "data model" 
of a modern terminal emulator should be HTML, and I have a plans for a new Kawa 
console based on this. 
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--Per Bothner 
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