Debugging a bazaar plugin

[Aaron Bentley]

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Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at contributing to the bzr-svn plugin when I have time as I
> want to get it to a state that we can use it to branch one of our svn
> projects. But I have a question: how do you debug a bazaar plugin? I
> managed to get Eclipse PyDev installed and it seems to be the best free
> Python IDE that I have tried. Do I need to do anything special in order
> to debug a plugin? Any tips/other tool ideas appreciated...

One thing is, if your plugin fails to load, see ~/.bzr.log.  That will
show the traceback.

John's already mentioned pdb.  Another thing is that plugins can be part
of the bzr test suite; they just need to define
"$PLUGIN_NAME.test_suite".  You can test just your plugin by doing "bzr
selftest $PLUGIN_NAME".

Aaron
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