On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Chris Ahrendt celticht32@aol.com wrote:
Yes I am sorry for the long post =) but he did ask for some of my thoughts =)
Most debugger GUIs on Linux are (somewhat sucky) frontends to gdb. I'm pretty sure it's possible to create something similar for winedbg.
Cool thats all I am saying here... is provide the hooks =) the gdb interface for winedbg is really kludgy.... or I found it to be... so just get rid of the middleman =)
If you've found a problem with winedbg, or a certain feature is missing, then file a bug.
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All the rest of your wish list, and I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything, has nothing to do with Wine in particular, or there is nothing that can be changed in Wine itself to accommodate your wishes. Most of your wishes sound like IDE integration problems that need to be brought up with those particular projects.
I absolutely agree with Kai on the difficulty level. The threshold for Wine development is very high. If an interested developer can't get anything done without the items on your wish list, then how can he successfully hack on Wine? General development skills are just the door to Wine development. Once you walk through that door, fixing Wine is a whole other can of worms.