The V8 inspector integration is currently considered an experimental feature in the docs.
Now that the debugger is deprecated, I think we should move the V8 inspector to stable and remove the before Node.js 8 is released.--without-inspector configure flag
/cc @nodejs/ctc @nodejs/v8-inspector
I agree. We should make it a stable feature. Many people are already relying on it as if it were stable.
I agree that we should make it stable. I am curious as to the reasoning for removing the --without-inspector flag though
I thought the flag was here because of the experimental state of the feature. Is there another reason? Perhaps file size?
I would think file size is good reason. FWIW, we also have a --without-npm flag too, so I personally think we should keep it.
agree it should be stable, and the flag to compile without it should be left in
I have added https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11431 to the 8.0.0 milestone. If we are moving inspector to non-experimental, we should start the inspector, rather than the old debug protocol, on SIGUSR1.
Should we pull the runtime part (remove the experimental warning) into @joshgav's PR to update the hint text? https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11207
I broke this out into it's own PR https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12352
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I have added https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11431 to the 8.0.0 milestone. If we are moving inspector to non-experimental, we should start the inspector, rather than the old debug protocol, on SIGUSR1.