Re: Why there's no debugger?

[Josef Wolf]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:41:57PM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Josef Wolf <address@hidden> writes:

> > I followed the suggestion from the info pages and put following into my
> > ~/.guile file:
> 
> Which info pages were those?  The info for 1.6.7 does not mention
> (ice-9 debugger breakpoints ...), because those modules are not
> included in 1.6.7.
> 
> To do debugging with 1.6.7, you need to download and install the
> latest guile-debugging tarball/.deb from
> http://download.gna.org/guile-debugging/.  Please see the README file
> there for an explanation of how guile-debugging relates to Guile CVS,
> and for where to look for guile-debugging documentation.
> 
> (To confuse matters, the manual of recent Guile 1.8.x releases
> incorrectly documents these features, which are not actually present
> in Guile 1.8.x.  The manual should be fixed for the next 1.8.x release.)

Thanks for the answer, Neil.  You are right, I read it on a guile 1.8
installation.  At the time I wrote the mail, I had 1.6.7 and I failed
to remember that I read it on the other box.  Sorry for the confusion!

I guess the debugging will be included in some future guile release?