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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2019-04-14 18:50, schrieb Tomasz Wlostowski:
> Dear all,
>
> The attached patchset introduces a builtin crash reporter for Kicad -
> that is a window that pops up in case of a segmentation fault/other
> serious error, kindly apologizes to the user and lets him/her submit
> (anonymously) a bug report to us. It's loosely based on wxDebugReport,
> with a lot of new code (i.e. stack walker for windows or more 
> meaningful
> report format...).
>
> This is particularly targeted at Windows/OSX users, since getting a
> useful stack trace on these systems is considerably more difficult (at
> least for non-programmers) than on (L)Unixes.
>
> I invite you to test it, in case recent KiCad nightlies have become too
> stable, you can always simulate a crash through 'Help->Simulate Kicad
> Crash'.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom


Hi Tom-

I'm very happy to see these patches and am excited to try them out!  
Unfortunately, like others, I won't have time to really poke at this 
until after KiCon.  But if others are comfortable with it, please don't 
wait for me.

One addition that would be nice is making the destination URL and 
enabling/disabling of the reporter advanced config settings instead of 
defines.

Best-
Seth