Anyway, YCP is still going to be around for some time, and adding some debugging facilities may be worth the effort.
Each and every discussion on YaST becomes to a discussion why YCP is a bad language. I agree, YCP has its limitations from a programmer point of view. For a user it doesn't make any difference which programming or scripting language is used as long as YaST installs and configures the user's workstation the right way. From a programmer's perspective it makes a difference. And "just" adding a debugger won't make YCP the best language everyone loves, I guess. That's the reason why I think we should put YCP into maintenance mode and fix critical/major bugs only and focus on real improvements at the same time. An interesting research project would be a YaST module which is written in a popular language that doesn't use YCP at all. When this works out a lot of module authors will also rewrite their YaST modules. And in a couple of centuries YaST will be 100% YCP free. :-) That's my vision. Thomas -- Thomas Goettlicher SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org