On 10/23/2014 12:40 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote:
> On 23.10.2014 01:08, Kay Schenk wrote:
>> I know the crash reporter was disabled sometime before March, 2012.
>>
>> But can someone provide the commit message on this?
>
> As far as I know there was no explicit commit for this. Enabling or
> disabling the crash reporter was a configuration option
> (--enable-crashdump) that is still available today.
>
> For AOO releases the crashdump feature AFAIK never was enabled.
>
> The module implementing the crashdump feature is also still available
> today (main/crashrep), but it mentions e.g. "so-rep...@sun.com" as the
> target address for crash reports. That mail address went dead a couple
> of years ago though.
>
> If someone wanted to re-establish the crashdump feature
> - the module main/crashrep would have to be revitalized
> - our releases would have to enable this configuration option
> And either the server-infrastructure to accept and analyze incoming
> reports would have to be implemented from scratch as the related code
> was AFAIK not open-sourced
> or the reports would have to be presented directly to the user via a
> nice UI. But for this good symbols would have to be available, which
> means, that the released libraries mustn't be stripped of these symbols
> and the unwind details. This would blow up size of our release artifacts
> considerably though.
Thank you so much for this explanation. Yes, I see now that the code for
the crashdump is still available. For some reason, this is what I
thought had been removed. And, even though I saw this as a config
option, I guess it didn't really register what the implications were --
I hadn't followed the build logic on this.
Because this had been provided until AOO 3.4, I will go ahead an update
the AOO 3.4 Release Notes (despite the lateness of this action), to make
it easier for reference.
>
>> And, if it was part of wither the 3.4.1 offering or 4.0, I would like to
>> add this removal to the release notes as we continue to get questions
>> about it.
>
> It wasn't even enabled in our first published artifact (AOO 3.4.0-Beta).
>
>> Unfortunately, information about this was just recently removed from the
>> Help files, so miscommunication *for a while*.
>
> Thanks to all who fixed this problem in the help files!
>
> Herbert
>
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