Feature Requests item #1044401, was opened at 2004-10-11 03:50 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1044401&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: win32 Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Paul Paradise (natacado) Assigned to: Daniel Atallah (datallah) Summary: binaries should have versions Initial Comment: [Posting on behalf of a friend w/o a SF account - the account create system is currently broken...] I just noticed that the binaries that come with the Windows release of gaim have no version numbers on them. This is not the end of the world, but is generally good practice. One super added bonus of having version numbers is that you can then take advantage of the Microsoft Windows Error Reporting stuff that ships with Windows XP. Every time a user crashes gaim, they are presented with a dialog asking if they would like to report the problem. These reports are collected and stored by Microsoft and can theoretically be accessed later by requesting access to you crashes. Information can be found here: https://winqual.microsoft.com/help/wer_help/dev.aspx You will be able to see what issues are affecting the most people on the most recent build. Without having version numbers on your binaries, there is no way to distinguish between crashes from old builds and crashes from recent builds. You clearly would want to focus your energy on the ones still affecting the most recent version. If you would like more information of if you have questions, you may contact me at nhertl/replace_with_at/microsoft.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-10 16:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: gw- (gw-) Date: 2005-10-29 18:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1334052 Jup, this would be useful. And also the version number should be in the main login windows and in a Readme.txt (or Changes.txt or sth) file in the folder where you extract the binary version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-10-11 10:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 plus, using microsoft is distasteful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Atallah (datallah) Date: 2004-10-11 09:41 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=325843 Gaim's debug version uses the Dr. MinGW exception handler (http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/projects/gnu-win32/software/drmingw/) to create stack trace dumps that we can use to track bugs. We probably would benefit from including the gaim version in our binaries, i'll look into what it would take to include that information. I cannot speak for the dev. team, but i suspect that people will be hesitant to use the Windows Error Reporting for a number of reasons (and i may be misinformed about some of these, but they are what i have been able to determine after looking into WER previously). - The Terms of Use are somewhat problematic for a open source project, they require the error reports to be hosted (for no longer than 6 months) on a secure web server that is accessible only by regular employees. - The Crash Dumps that are generated are of limited usefulness to us (it may be that i just don't know how to extract the useful information) . I have been unable to extract any useful debug information fro the crash dumps ( i'm not sure if it is because we are not compiling with VCC or i'm doing something wrong). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1044401&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
