Subject: Re: bug#21521: 24.5; pdb default suggested command

From: Stefano Pacifico <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:24:37 -0400

> On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Stefano Pacifico <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:20:42 -0400
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> 
>> Because it does not seem that standard distributions of Python install a `pdb` executable script in standard PATH locations. This wiki, for example, https://wiki.python.org/moin/EmacsEditor suggests creating the link manually. 
>> 
>> On the other hand, all distributions of Python come with the `pdb.py` module available by default, so `python -m pdb` should always work. 
> 
> Is this a Python-only problem or are there other debuggers supported
> by GUD with similar issues?

In the context of the debuggers supported by GUD, at first glance Python is the only one, although I haven’t tried them all.