Hi Damjan, Am 31.01.19 um 18:36 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:54 AM Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The crash report tool was abandoned some years ago. Help files were >> removed in 2014: >> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125696 >> >> Now I simply removed the directory main/crashrep from my build tree >> (AOO42X) and still could build successfully. >> >> So my question is, can it be safely removed? That would free some space >> and remove unused strings for translation. >> >> > My vote would be: ABSOLUTELY NOT! > > This is C++, there is no Exception.printStackTrace() when things go wrong, > there is no cross-platform remote debugging. What are we going to do when > users come back to us crying how "it crashed"? With a stack trace, we know > where to look, and even if there are no debug symbols, we at least know > which module crashed. Without a stack trace, the best we can hope for is to > reproduce the problem ourselves while running in a debugger. > > We absolutely need a user-friendly crash reporter, especially after so many > changes, with the upcoming Win64 port, with the port to newer MSVC, and > many other changes that will destabilize the codebase further. I see your point. > > Yes the crashreporter tool wasn't great, it didn't work on Mac, it required > some webservice to submit reports to, but so what? It's just code. We could > just make it print a textual report that users can copy and paste into > Bugzilla.
Then let's get it functional again. Indeed a simple text file would really be helpful for bug reports. Later, we can update/re-enable the help pages again. Regards, Matthias > > That crashreporter stands between us and chaos. > > > Prior threads discussing it: > > 29 May 2012 > “How to enable crash log for AOO3.4?” > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201205.mbox/%3cCAGSaLEqZaw12nYE089iDRJY=bb0axqujepnadvg25vrw0ln...@mail.gmail.com%3e > > 22 October 2014 > “crash reporter -- can someone supply commit information on this?” > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201410.mbox/%3C544838E3.6050600%40gmail.com%3E > > > Regards > Damjan >
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