Remote Debugging Proposal

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Wed Mar 5 16:03:51 UTC 2003


On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 06:15:45 +0100 (MET), Ian Piumarta <ian.piumarta at inria.
fr> wrote:

> If the PDA has sufficient memory to support a fullish image and 
a biggish
> BitMap then I think I'd be inclined to try using the VNC/RFB package 
on
> SqueakMap, which implements the server-side of the RFB protocol 
entirely
> within Squeak.  (It's 'alpha' code so might require some tidying up to
> make it reliable.)  You could then start an image on the PDA and 
connect
> to it from a VNC viewer on the workstation.  You'd have an entire 
Squeak
> development environment running on the PDA and displaying remotely 
on the
> workstation.

Well, the PDA does have 32 MB of RAM, but the general idea here (for 
me) is to build something that supports working on live headless 
images. This one won't be headless, but future ones will be, and 
I think it is a very interesting problem to solve. The next generation 
of the sub (if I have enough money) will probably switch to an ARM-
based embedded board (like the ELF from Inhand Solutions), and that 
will definitely be running headless.

If I wanted to go that (VNC) route, there are lots of remote control 
apps you can get for Pocket Windows that take over the whole machine 
and let you run a virtual window on your desktop machine.

Later,
Jon

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