[plug] Perl GUI Debuggers

Colin Muller colin at twobluedots.com.au
Mon Aug 26 13:52:51 WST 2002


On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:38:56PM +0800, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> Having a sticky Perl problem, I resorted to using the interactive debugger. 
> Getting annoyed at Command Line debugging, I did a search and found this GUI 
> version of the Perl debugger:
>    http://world.std.com/~aep/ptkdb/
> 
> While VERY handy, I found it still to be a bit clunky in its interface.
> 
> Does anyone know of any other handy Perl Debuggers along the same lines?

Komodo from Activestate has all sorts of debugging possibilities. Not
fre, but you can download an evaluation version; I found it not to my
taste.

In the end, I've decided that my preferred debugging environment
consists of "-w", "use strict", and warn and print statements.

Colin



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