[OE-core] Adding cgdb to meta

[Laszlo Papp]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12 August 2014 16:46, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>>> > That layer is too big. It is nearly everything that is rejected from
>>> meta;
>>> > ok there are some dedicated layers, like meta-networking, but it feels
>>> like
>>> > the last resort shelter where everything can just be thrown at.
>>> >
>>> > I do not think it is just us who do not wanna pull it into their
>>> project.
>>> > Never mind, it remains to be a feature in our layer, which is closed
>>> source,
>>> > then. It is a pity, but I will move along.
>>>
>>> People who think its too big are welcome to copy recipes out of it and
>>> sync them manually - that's still better than not sharing the recipe.
>>>
>>
>> I am unfortunately not interested in participating to something that I
>> have no intent to even test myself before submitting. meta-oe became a
>> monster can which I personally would not like to deal with. That is said
>> with due-respect. If its goal were reconsidered and split into several
>> small layers, then mayhaps... But it is not there, and I am not sure if it
>> was any soon...
>>
>> Unfortunately, this feature remains proprietary at the point of writing
>> this. As long as it works for me, I will not be too much bothered, although
>> I feel sorry for those who will need to reinvent the recipe, modulo
>> stabilization.
>>
>
> But that is alright as long as everyone else finds the IMHO cumbersome
> workflow with gdb OK for debugging. I think pleasant debugging is very
> important for developers, and cgdb is still a command line based tool,
> basically a thing wrapper on top of gdb with ncurses. It is not like "ddd"
> and other heavy tools. That is why I thought with minor addition, meta
> could be increase the software development experience; gdb is just way too
> raw to be effective. But again, no one else might share this opinion, so
> let us move on.
>
> Here is a reminder screenshot for those who do not know it, just in case:
> http://cgdb.github.io/images/screenshot_debugging.png
>

Alternatively, feel free to advise any sufficient debugging experience with
oe-core. I will happily switch to any opportunities that reach this level.
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