Dontbug (see https://github.com/sidkshatriya/dontbug ) is a reversible debugger for PHP

Dontbug depends on Xdebug ( see Credits at https://github.com/sidkshatriya/dontbug#credits )

Currently a very small patch needs to be applied to Xdebug to get it to work with Dontbug (see https://github.com/sidkshatriya/dontbug/blob/14ddeda6f527b399c6653e7e41291ccbd28a8c4b/ext/dontbug/xdebug_2_4.make_extern.dontbug.patch )

Basically the patch makes the static function xdebug_dbgp_parse_option() extern.

The rationale for this patch is described here:

https://github.com/sidkshatriya/dontbug/wiki/How-the-Dontbug-Debugger-works#getting-the-value-of-variables-and-inspecting-the-call-stack-1

I was wondering if we could incorporate the patch into the Xdebug master & 2.4.x branches so that end users will not need to build a patched Xdebug locally in order to use Dontbug. (The extraneous C comments in the patch should be removed, of course, while incorporating it into Xdebug sources)

I would be very grateful if you considered this patch for inclusion. I think this will be a great help in reducing entry barriers to reverse debugging on PHP. Thank you for all the help Xdebug has already given Dontbug.