Suggestion: add `mingw-w64-python-pygments` to the SDK, so GDB syntax-highlights source code
phil-blain opened this issue · 4 comments
It would be nice if the GDB available in the SDK would color source code (i.e. with the list command or the in the TUI.). The easiest way to do that is simply to have the Python Pygments library installed; GDB should find it and use it (it's way easier than building GDB with the GNU source-highlight library, which - for me - seems to never results in a working build).
- Is this the right repo to open such an issue (build-extra does not have the "Issues" tab) ?
- I'm not sure of what the process of adding a package to the SDK would look like. I looked through the wiki but could not find the info (maybe I did not look hard enough!)
Why not just manually install it yourself? pacman -Syy mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pygments is your friend.
As to installing it by default: the SDK is already way too large as it is, therefore I do not want to add more packages, especially when they are not essential to build Git for Windows.
I thought you were all about making things nicer for the user out of the box ;)
Joke aside, I’ll add a note to the Debugging Git page of the wiki instead :)
I thought you were all about making things nicer for the user out of the box ;)
Heh. Within reason, Phil, within reason.
Joke aside, I’ll add a note to the Debugging Git page of the wiki instead :)
Thank you!