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Ye HPX Distributed Debugger

Scimitar

Ye Distributed Debugger

Scimitar is a distributed debugging tool for HPX applications. It is a front-end for GDB and adds features to make common operations such as switching between several sessions (like localities in HPX) and viewing HPX's internal data structures easier.

Documentation

• For documentation consult Scimitar's wiki pages

scimitar's Issues

Missing dependencies error message

Problem

User has to read the traceback to figure what's missing

$ ./scimitar.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./scimitar.py", line 21, in <module>
    from sessions import modes, offline_session, debug_session
  File "C:\Users\Parsa\Documents\scimitar\scimitar\sessions\__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    import modes, offline_session, debug_session
  File "C:\Users\Parsa\Documents\scimitar\scimitar\sessions\offline_session.py", line 14, in <module>
    import pexpect
ImportError: No module named pexpect

Proposed Solution

1. Warn the user if dependencies (pexpect, prompt_toolkit, etc) are not installed.
2. Create wheel/egg

readline on Windows

Problem

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./scimitar.py", line 171, in <module>
    main()
  File "./scimitar.py", line 97, in main
    init_terminal()
  File "C:\Users\Parsa\Documents\scimitar\scimitar\util\input_helpers.py", line 130, in init_terminal
    if 'libedit' in readline.__doc__:
TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable