Apport

Port to Windows/Mac

Bug #516104 reported by Martin Pool
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Apport
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

It would be nice to use apport to report bzr bugs on Windows, Mac, etc. One obstacle to this is that the setup.py script refuses to run there. It's perhaps reasonable to just assume there's no packaging_impl there?

See eg http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/annotate/1707/setup.py

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Right, since Windows uses neither rpm nor dpkg. But that's not all of it, the signal crashing code and data collection make _heavy_ assumptions about the OS. It will take a good amount of effort to port Apport to Windows.

summary: - apport refuses to install on windows, mac, etc
+ Port to Windows/Mac
Changed in apport:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

For Bazaar, where I'd like to get to first is an emasculated apport that can only report on purely-python things (traceback, argv, modules), with no lower-level crash data, and then secondly for it to be able to send that to Launchpad. But I realize even that may not be easy, and isn't strategic for you. Maybe one of our Windows users will have a go at it.

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