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diff --git a/devel/p5-Devel-ebug/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Devel-ebug/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..86c0494a3743 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-Devel-ebug/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +A debugger is a computer program that is used to debug other programs. +Devel::ebug is a simple, extensible Perl debugger with a clean API. +Using this module, you may easily write a Perl debugger to debug your +programs. Alternatively, it comes with an interactive debugger, ebug. + +perl5db.pl, Perl's current debugger is currently 2,600 lines of magic +and special cases. The code is nearly unreadable: fixing bugs and +adding new features is fraught with difficulties. The debugger has no +test suite which has caused breakage with changes that couldn't be +properly tested. It will also not debug regexes. Devel::ebug is aimed +at fixing these problems and delivering a replacement debugger which +provides a well-tested simple programmatic interface to debugging +programs. This makes it easier to build debuggers on top of +Devel::ebug, be they console-, curses-, GUI- or Ajax-based. + +There are currently two user interfaces to Devel::debug, ebug and +ebug_http. ebug is a console-based interface to debugging programs, +much like perl5db.pl. ebug_http is an innovative web-based interface +to debugging programs. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-ebug/ |