we are trying to decide whether it is worth keeping the "Remote debugging" functionality in the standalone debugger around in the future (see "Remote debugging with the standalone debugger" here: https://www.purebasic.com/documentation ... ugger.html)
The feature is a bit "in the way" in the IDE/Debugger source code as it is one of the few (soon hopefully the only) part that is written in C which complicates the build setup quite a bit. It is also rather complex/hard to maintain for the functionality it actually provides. Since the IDE is now open source we are trying to lower the bar for contributions from the community and this would help a lot. I looked into rewriting this part in PB but it will be quite some effort and given that I never had any feedback regarding this feature in terms of bug reports or suggestions I am really not sure if this is worth it. If the feature is not used much, removing it might be the preferable option.
So the big question is: Is anybody here actively using this feature and would have a problem if it is removed in the future?
Possible alternatives for debugging on a remote machine without a GUI would be:
- Use the console debugger
- Use an SSH tunnel with X forwarding to run the GUI debugger on the target machine but show the UI locally
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