[Gambas-user] Thoughts on new debug with command line parameters

[Christof Thalhofer]

Am 30.05.20 um 10:51 schrieb Bruce:

>>> I don't think I am enamored with the new debug with parameters process.
>>> When I am working on a module that takes command like parameters and am
>>> debugging it. Having to click three times for every round of testing is
>>> a little annoying. Why has this been changed.
>>> It was great for debugging the old way, set it and just go till done
>>> with debug session.
>>>
>>> Feels more like work the new way.....
>>
>> I agree. If we were able to select (or deselect) the argument in the
>> form 'Run with arguments' that had to be run automatically when F5 was
>> hit, that would be a lot better.
>>
>> But I find the new dialog to be a great improvement over the old one,
>> with which I despaired a couple of times. Also that it's not in the
>> 'Project' dialog any more is a great improvement for me.
> 
> This is an aside comment! And is not meant to be inflammatory in any way.
> 
> Linux command line terminology is that a command has "options" and
> "arguments". Options are indicated by a flag e.g. -p (which can have a
> value attached e.g. -pH. Arguments are the things parsed after all
> options have been processed eg cp FileA ~/FileB.
>  The gambas command line parser "gb.args" handles them according to this
> convention.
> Please guys it makes it hard to understand exactly what you mean if you
> mix these terms up.

Ok..ok.

But please file a bug that it can be fixed before 3.15.

Alles Gute

Christof Thalhofer

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