Re: [IANAL] Re: [PHP-DEV] Debugger protocol

On 2001-03-20 14:22:54, Joey Smith <joey@joeysmith.com> wrote: > I have been told that the Zend Debugger license explicitly > prohibits such activity. I, for one, do not begrudge Zend trying to make > a little money. Just because some of us manage to live an idealistic > world does not mean that everyone can afford to do so. Anyone can take > the PHP code and do the same. Not everyone will have the same degree of > credibility, though. Having spent some time working on my own editor/IDE, I would also like to make use of the Zend Debugger. What about making the protocol used by the client side IDE to talk to the server side debugger open? I'm not talking about the client side code, or the server side code, just the protocol. That way, you would still need to purchase the server-side license, but would then be free to use your own choice of IDE/development tools? Personally, I found the Zend IDE a little slow and unresponsive on my windows box (most likely down to Java) and I am loath to pay for something that I am unlikely to use - no disrespect to the Zend IDE - no doubt a lot of work has been and is till being put into it, it's just not to my taste. However, I would be willing to purchase the debugger license if I could use it with some other IDE tool (eg: my own). I wonder how many other people out there in dev land would like to see it working in this way? And I wonder if it's enough to get the Zend guys to consider it - no doubt "publishing" the protocol will take up a certain amount of their time, and the "business decision" they have to make is whether it will gain them enough sales for their debugger to pay for that time. Well, I would be happy to contribute to Zend in some way - PHP has also kept me employed for the last year and looks set to keep me going for a couple of years at least. --Wez.