[Eric] RE: Debugging when running from .zip files, and various problems

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008, Tunmer, Luke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just started to look at Eric4, and I'm impressed. However, the
> following things have stopped me in my tracks:
>
> - We build our project from a large number of components (currently >
> 15), some developed by other teams. The way that these components get
> built is they are compiled into pyc files and packaged into a zip file -
> very much like the Java jar file concept. When our project runs, all the
> zip files get added to the sys.path by a little bootstrap script. This
> of course breaks the assumption that most debuggers use, which is that
> the py sits next to the pyc file. Is there a way of getting the Eric4
> DebugClient to have some knowledge of a mapping between the filename
> found in frame.f_code.co_filename and the source file, using something
> like a source-path setting? I don't think the remote/local mapping will
> be sufficiently rich to do this.

Have you tried it? I was about to suggest this function.

>
> - I have also hit a problem with threads. If I select the Multi Threaded
> Client Type, my thread's run method is never getting called. If I select
> Standard, then my Python-created threads do run, however threads that
> originate from elsewhere (i.e. ominORBpy) seem to get hung up. If the
> Standard client is selected, then breakpoints set in wxPython dialog
> code fail to work.

Can you send some minimal example code, that shows the observed behaviour. 
That way I can try to debug it.

>
> - Furthermore the Multi Threaded client seems to be excruciatingly slow:
> our app is a large wxPython app, and the startup of it can take 2
> minutes when run in Eric4 as opposed to 15 seconds normally. I looked at
> how much gets run on the settrace hook and it seems to be quite a bit.
> However the Standard client runs much faster.
>
> - I've also had lock-ups where the client is consuming 100% of the CPU.

Any idea what was going on at that time?

>
> Many thanks for any feedback you can offer.
>
> This is Eric4 - 4.0.3 (r1529) running on WinXP.
>
> Regards.
> Luke
>
>
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