Subject: Debugger 0.8 released
From: [email-masked] (Ilya Zakharevich)
Date: 30 Aug 1995 13:38:21 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

Avalable on:
	ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl
Release history follows:

This version of Debugger Kit has the following improvements over
version in 5.001:

1) Minor bugs corrected;
2) ReadLine support when used with ReadLine 0.5;
3) New 'h topic' command;
4) New 'O' command to set options, type `h O' to see help;
5) Can recursively dump variables (subject to some Options): see 'x', 'O'.
6) Does not print a lot of junk with 'X' and 'V' (subject to options).
7) Commands 'X', 'V' and 'S' take regexp's.

0.7:

8) Interruptable during dumping.
9) data internal to perl (like `undef', `GLOB(0x03)') is printed
without quotes;
10) defaults for printing style are saner now (prints FileHandles for
globs by default).
11) Rendezvous code added: if started with PERLDB_NOTTY set, the
debugger runs stealthy until `kill -2' or equivalent. At this moment
tries to find a tty and uses it for user interaction (see comments at
start of perl5db.pl).

0.8:

12) All configuration is moved to PERLDB_OPTS env. variable.
13) Additional configuration options added: Now it is possible to 
	a) run your program in one tty (or as a daemon),
	b) debug it in a different one,
	c) show the current line info into a third one (or pipe to external
		program of your choice - hi, tom), 
	d) postpone the debugger startup until the first INTERRUPT,
	e) postpone the choice of the tty to use until the first INTERRUPT.
(mostly independently of each other). You can set your dumping
preferences from PERLDB_OPTS too.
14) "empty array" message added.
15) \0 are shown in strings when q=".
16) repeated `a' on the same line works now.
17) If you install a patch to pp_ctl.c, recursive debugging works: you
can interrupt commands given from the debugger command line, step,
next, or trace through them with new extended commands
	[snt] expression

Enjoy, 
Ilya