On ti, joulu 6 2022 at 20.31.48 +00:00:00, Alyssa Ross 
<alyssa.ross@unikie.com> wrote:
> Yes, that's a compelling argument.  I wonder if it would make sense to
> add some special configuration option for development, that would 
> enable
> extra development tools and other goodies?  (I often find myself 
> adding
> strace…)
> 
> (I think they probably shouldn't be present by default, because then 
> it
> could be difficult to be sure nothing was depending on them in future
> when it came time to remove them.  But something that any given
> developer could set once and then always have developer stuff 
> available,
> and toggle off when they wanted to test a production build, could make
> things a lot nicer.)

 I often add strace and ltrace :-) Logging and extra access to the 
internals of host/VM are also good.
 I agree about thati it's good idea to have developer-support features 
in place and have an ability to make production and development builds 
with a simple switch between them.

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vadik likholetov