[PyKDE] eric3 - debugging & svn integration

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hi,

thanks you very much for this lengthy report. I'll look into the topics 
and will try to fix the problem areas. Some comments can be found below.

Detlev

Am Sonntag, 13. Juni 2004 04:45 schrieb Robin Bryce:
> hi all,
> Newbie eric3 user migrating from winglite. I like the eric3
> environment a lot but I've had some problems with the debugger and svn
> integration. also big apologies to all if this is inappropriate post.
>
> fedora core 2
> Python 2.3.3
> Qt 3.2.2-2
> PyQt-3.12
> QScintilla 1.3
> BRM 0.9 cvs20040211
> eric-3.4.2 installed from a source tar ball.
>
> so stuff I've had trouble with:
>
> 1. if I clear all break points, hit F6, I cant interrupt the program
> by setting a new break point. I can imagine a number of work around
> that would require hackery in my source. thats fine but if there is a
> better way ...

That's the way the Python debugger (bdb.py) works.

>
> 2. attempted to use passive debugging mode in conjunction with the
> multi threaded client. using the following command line:
>  python
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/eric3/Debugger/DebugClientThreads.py
> -w /home/myhome/mydevdir -- /usr/bin/twistd --originalname --pidfile
> blackmiled.pid -nof blackmiled.tap
>
> this caused infinite loop in DebugClientBase.py in the argument
> processing loop beginning at line 1106. changing all the del args[1]'s
> to del args[0]'s fixed this.
>
> with that change the debugger connected to the ide but fell over in:
> DebugClientBase.shouldSkip line 751
>
> attributeError: tracePython
>
> call stack was (verbatim trace at end of email)
> DebugClientThreads.py 183 shouldSkip
> DebugBase.py 386 stop_here
> bdb.py 70 dispatch_call
> bdb.py 50 trace_dispatch
> twistd 23 "import sys, os, string"
> string:1
>
> DebugClientBase 1079 startProgInDebugger
> DebugClientBase 1132 main
> DebugClientThreads 183
>
> I'm guessing line 293 in DebugClientBase.py has not been executed at
> the point the exception is thrown but I'm out of my depth here.
>
> passive mode works fine using same command line but with
> DebugClientNoQt instead of  DebugClientThreads
>
> 3. svn checkout forces '/trunk' onto the end of the repository path if
> no tag is specified. what I really wanted was a 'just use _this_ path'
> setting. changing line 177 in subversion.py to svnUrl = vcsDir had the
> effect I was after.

The subversion integration is following the recommendations given by the 
subversion book. However, it might be possible to add an option to 
change this.

>
> 4. urls of the form https://svn.domain.com:PORTNUM/repos/ were
> problematic. ended up changing the body of svnURL in supbersion.py
> line 1066 to:
>
> url = tuple(url.split(':', 2))
> if len(url) == 3:
>     scheme = url[0]
>     host = url[1]
>     port, path = url[2].split("/",1)
>     return "%s:%s:%s/%s" % (scheme, host,port,urllib.quote(path))
> else:
>     return "%s:%s" % (url[0], urllib.quote(url[1]))
>
> 5. I really wanted an option to accept self signed ssl certificates. I
> understand the issues with this but I want the choice. could anyone
> point me in the right direction so I can either kluge this in localy
> or implement 'as best I can' ? I gave up with this in the end and just
> used ssh + localport forwarding.

Could you please give some detailed explanations?

>
> 6. I very much want to have one eric project with subfolders that are
> bound to different parts of a svn archive. ie:
> svnpath/projectA
> svnpath/otherprojects/projectB, projectC
> svnpath/yetmoreprojects/projectD
>
> and have an eric project with vcs integration with a direcory tree
> like this:
> /home/build/masterproject/
> 	projectA,
> 	projectB
> 	projectC
> 	projectD
>
>
> Any how, a big thank you to the developers of eric3. I think its
> really very nice!

"Developers" is 99% just me.

>
> Best Regards,
>
> Robin Bryce
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- full stack trace for attribute error thing with passive debugging
>
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/eric3/Debugger/DebugClientThreads.py
>", line 183, in ?
>     debugClient.main()
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/eric3/Debugger/DebugClientBase.py",
> line 1132, in main
>     self.startProgInDebugger(args, wd, host, port)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/eric3/Debugger/DebugClientBase.py",
> line 1079, in startProgInDebugger
>     res = self.mainThread.run('execfile(' + `self.running` +
> ')',self.debugMod.__dict__)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/bdb.py", line 350, in run
>     exec cmd in globals, locals
>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/bin/twistd", line 23, in ?
>     import sys, os, string
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Debugger/DebugThread.py",
> line 111, in trace_dispatch
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/bdb.py", line 50, in trace_dispatch
>     return self.dispatch_call(frame, arg)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/bdb.py", line 70, in dispatch_call
>     if not (self.stop_here(frame) or self.break_anywhere(frame)):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Debugger/DebugBase.py", line
> 386, in stop_here
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/eric3/Debugger/DebugClientBase.py",
> line 751, in shouldSkip
>     if self.mainThread.tracePython:     # trace into Python library
> AttributeError: tracePython
>
>

Detlev
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