Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

KCrash #10

Open
squeevee opened this issue Apr 10, 2020 · 1 comment
Open

KCrash #10

squeevee opened this issue Apr 10, 2020 · 1 comment
Assignees
Labels
enhancement New feature or request
Milestone

Comments

@squeevee
Copy link
Owner

Some kind of crash handler is desired, if for no other reason than because a dialog saying that the application crashed is strictly better than the UI spontaneously disappearing with zero explanation, and (at least on Linux, but possibly on Windows too?), the application must go out of its way to make that happen.

My first choice of crash handling library is Google Breakpad (see #8) but for various reasons that's looking difficult. Integrating it is going to be a project

KCrash doesn't have the same features as Breakpad, nor does it support as many platforms. However:

  • It seems quite capable of launching an "Addle has crashed" dialog.
  • It easily works with Qt and CMake
  • It supports Linux and Windows

Which makes it perfectly adequate for the time being.

@squeevee squeevee added the enhancement New feature or request label Apr 10, 2020
@squeevee squeevee added this to the Pilot implementation milestone Apr 10, 2020
@squeevee squeevee self-assigned this Apr 10, 2020
@squeevee
Copy link
Owner Author

KCrash is licensed LGPL, but it's tightly paired to DrKonqi which is licensed GPL2, and I'm not sure if it's supported on Windows. It may be more illuminating to work on this this after making a stable Windows build of Addle.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
enhancement New feature or request
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant