[ros-dev] VOTE: Switch to Wine Debug System

[ea]

Hi Eric!

> My vote is NO!
>
> I'd like to keep the current debugging message system for the 
> following reasons:
> 1) Establishing a channel-based debug message system will flood the 
> developers with messages they don't need.
>
> 2) I cannot enable a message in a single place without hacks, like 
> turning a TRACE into a FIXME. Alternative: introduce TRACE1, FIXME1, 
> etc. which are always enabled. But this looks like the current system.
>
> 3) I don't like to make changes to the registry in order to change the 
> debug channel settings. How will I debug the boot process from a CD or 
> floppy disk?


Would a compromise make you happy? I mean, current debugging does not 
change and we add a channel based debugging to support Wine's. We could 
write a pipe- or LPC-based debug message collector.

Emanuele