Announcing PathDB

[Tim Kientzle]

Sounds interesting.

There has been a lot of interest within the FreeBSD
community on getting a complete set of core development
tools that are free of GPL.  A debugger is obviously
a key part of that.

Do you have a Wiki page with more details about
what it does and how to start using it?

What CPUs does it support?  What is required
to add support for a new CPU?

What executable/debugging formats?  What is
required to add support for new ones?

What languages does it support?  What is required
to add support for new languages?

Does it handle the GDB wire protocol?

I would recommend that you put together a FreeBSD
port and make that available somewhere.  That would
make it much easier for people to try it out.

Especially for a large project like this, it takes
a while to build a user base and even longer to
build interest among external developers.  Please
don't be discouraged by the lack of (constructive)
feedback so far.

Cheers,

Tim Kientzle


C. Bergström wrote:
> 
> PathScale is slowly open sourcing and porting some of our core software 
> technology and thought the BSD community might be interested in PathDB.  
> Months ago we gave a few FBSD developers private access to the source, 
> but never received any feedback.  Now we're asking more people to please 
> test and tell us what you think.
> 
> Source
> git clone git://git.pathscale.com/path64/debugger.git
> Note : We have a small patch which makes it build with gcc-4.3+ that 
> should be pushed soon.
> 
> License (GPLv3, *BUT* if we get a lot of positive feedback from the BSD 
> community we can change this any time - see below)
> 
> Benefits
>    * Very well designed
>    * Robust and well tested
>    * Similar interface as GDB
>    * Commercially supported
>    * Recently revived roadmap (We're evaluating things like gpu support, 
> reverse debugging, latest dwarf standards, tight integration with 
> compiler for optimized debugging.. etc)
> 
> Promise - Give us a hand in testing and improving and we'll relicense to 
> a more permissive license.
> 
> Questions/comments - Say hi on #pathscale - irc.freenode.net or email me 
> directly
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Christopher
> 
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