[Zope] Zope Debugger lets WingDbg fail to connect toclient

[Chris Withers]

Hi John,

Wingware Support wrote:
>>> sorry, here it is. It is the the WingDbg Product, but you probably 
>>> will be unable to install/use it as it depends on the WingIDE (at 
>>> least part of it) to be installed on the server, too. And as WingIDE 
>>> is not open source, I am not allowed to hand it on.
>>
>> The patching is a bit worse than I expected, it doesn't look like 
>> WinDbg makes any attempt to call back to the original version of the 
>> method it's patching, which is a bit sad :-(
> 
> The patching WingDBG does is required so that the co_filename attribute 
> of code objects is set correctly. 

That's no good if they're not FS-based ;-)

> We would be interested in hearing if 
> there is a better way to do this.  

http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/zdb

> We'd be even more interested in 
> having Zope changed so that any debugger would work without monkey 
> patching ;).

Well, with code stored in an ODB and pdb's fundamentally FS-based and 
suprisingly unpluggable attitude, I don't think that's likely...

Also, bear in mind the oeverhead for getting the debugger stuff working, 
I really wouldn't want to use it in production!

cheers,

Chris

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