On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:12:39PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 24 avril 2007 à 12:58 +0200, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : > > Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Installing debugging symbols for all binaries involved in a crash > > > seems... heavyweight. I would expect the user to want to get on with > > > his or her work at this point. > > > > > > Wouldn't it be better - in terms of response rate - to take a > > > "minidump" (along the lines of Windows error reporting or Mozilla's > > > Quality Feedback Agent) and do symbol lookup on some central server? > > > > isn't this quite similar to what ubuntu is doing with Apport? > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport > > Apport sends complete core dumps, which is a very bad idea. The dumps > can be huge (for desktop applications they often grow beyond 200MB) and > they can contain gazillions of sensitive information. > > Using a central server for symbol lookup like Ben proposed looks like a > better idea. It needs gdb to be adapted or wrapped to access them > correctly, though.
FWIW, Mozilla is going to replace Talkback with Breakpad, which is under development. It would be worth getting involved in that. http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/ Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
