Debugging plugins

[kotborealis]

I want to debug plugins in a stupid way, by spraying breakpoint() into sources and using pdb in the terminal.
However, while building, buildstream keeps spamming status updates, which overwrite debugger's prompt.

Is there any way to stop status while debugger is active? Non-interactive options do not help.

Currently I'm using a small patch to disable status updates if env variable is set.

[kotborealis]

cc @abderrahim

Maybe I could draft a PR that disables status updates via env variable?

Something like:

def render(self):
  if os.environ.get("BST_DISABLE_STATUS", 1):
    return

  ...