431574 - Dehydra/Treehydra: debug option for include()

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Infrastructure :: Source Code Analysis, defect)

Description

[David Mandelin [:dmandelin]]

This is entirely non-pressing, but I wanted to stick it out here to see if anyone else wants it and if people would want it to live in the main code or not. It's just something I find myself adding ad-hoc printfs for fairly often, and I think it's a fairly standard feature for runtimes.

What I'm asking for is a debug option under which a message would be printed for every include statement showing the argument and the file it was resolved to. Something like:

dehydra: include('foo.js') -> mydir/blah/foo.js

It would also be good to have a more verbose option that prints out the search path.

As yet, I have no opinion on how to activate the option. To work fully, it has to be enabled before the user's script is running, so I guess a config file might be the way to go.

Comment 1

[(dormant account)]

Is sys.include_path not enough to show the search path?

As for the resolved path, should just store that path in _includedArray.

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Dehydra and treehydra are no longer maintained by Mozilla.