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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>I believe dbg will always be there for the expert programmer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>knowing his/her trace commands.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Inviso replaces trace tool builder in combination with dbg and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>is far (too) more advanced.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>It is still however in version 0 release. I am working on it</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>as "we speak". The equivalent to trace tool builder is comming</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>soon as an add on on-top of inviso, making it possible to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>build an inviso adaptation for your system.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>I do also actually have an inofficial not yet ready GS based</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>gui interface to inviso, meant to be a desktop tool for the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>programmer not on speaking terms with dbg. It is to be seen</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>when that tool is released however.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Best Regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Lennart</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>(And then not to mention all new interesting problems comming</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>when running SMP... :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Från:</B> erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org genom Vlad Dumitrescu<BR><B>Skickat:</B> fr 2007-04-13 10:05<BR><B>Till:</B> erlang-questions<BR><B>Ämne:</B> [erlang-questions] Tracing frameworks<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Hi!<BR><BR>I was looking at the available tracing tools and I am a little<BR>confused. I hope someone can shed some light on these questions.<BR><BR>The "classic" way involves using dbg, a newer way is with observer/ttb<BR>and even newer is inviso. One has to chose between those, because they<BR>all use the built-in tracing mechanism. Are there any guidelines as to<BR>what use cases are most interesting for each tool?<BR><BR>Regarding ttb, why is only a file trace port supported? For a<BR>distributed setting, I guess it is much easier to be able to sort<BR>events<BR><BR>Is it just me, or would a tool that is easier to use be something to wish for?<BR><BR>best regards,<BR>Vlad<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>erlang-questions mailing list<BR>erlang-questions@erlang.org<BR><A href="http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions">http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>