[Dev] Dabo, Wax, others?

[Ted Leung]

The Mac also has the builtin crashreporter app.   This is becoming a  
standard "feature"

On Sep 16, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> If that's the only disavantage, I'm all for blessing talkback (and  
> adding library asserts and feedback on python) as a new "feature"  
> in whatever we call release. I don't want to sound funny but the  
> number of existing users we will inconvenience or confuse is...  
> ahem... "small"...
> As a data point, all MS Office apps do report bugs now "a la  
> talkback" as well as Windows XP and Firefox (as mentioned by Alec).  
> I witness the difference it made in the MS Office team to estimate  
> the criticallity of  bugs: huge!
> So, IMHO, it's a fair addition to whatever we call release. It will  
> definitely generate very useful data, even from a high level point  
> of view (e.g. how often a given crash is reported...).
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
>
> John Anderson wrote:
>
>
>> The only disavantage of callihng this release is we already have a  
>> release version and it doesn't have feedback on python or library  
>> asserts, which is what we need feedback on.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Alec Flett wrote:
>>
>>
>>> How about calling it "the release"?
>>>
>>> This functionality can go out in release-level products - Windows  
>>> XP and Firefox are two that I can think of that have this  
>>> functionality built in to the end-user release. I'm sure there  
>>> are more.
>>>
>>> Alec
>>>
>>> John Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Maybe we should change the name so your mother would install it  
>>>> if she's interested in sending back automated results.
>>>>
>>>> Andi Vajda wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree it makes sense for a end user debug version to send  
>>>>>> info back to us
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems to me that something labelled "end user debug version"  
>>>>> is not something my mother would ever install, yet it would be  
>>>>> useful if she reported
>>>>> bugs via something like talkback.
>>>>>
>>>>> Andi..
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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