Gone without a "trace"

[Howard Bornstein]

I had mentioned previously that the Trace command was missing in the
debugger in Rev 3.5 and it was suggested that I file a bug report. I did
that (#8144) and got this very strange response from Oliver:

"We decided to remove the trace feature from the IDE for version 3.0 to make the
product consistent with other more well-known development environments. The
engine support for tracing will remain as it may be useful for development of


third party debugging tools.

The user guide should be updated.

Regards
Oliver"

If I understand his response, he is saying that they removed a useful
feature of the IDE because competing products *didn't* have this feature!
Maybe someone can explain this to me but I don't get it. Why would removing
a useful feature of your product that competing products don't have be an
advantage? Maybe I haven't had enough coffee today, but that sounds just
nuts to me.

I'd really like to see Trace put back as it is extremely useful in some
circumstances.

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Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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