MMICrashReporter - advance preview available
MMICrashReporter - advance preview available
- Subject: MMICrashReporter - advance preview available
- From: Martin Redington <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:25:43 +0100
Inspired, like Uli M Klusterer (see http://lists.apple.com/archives/
cocoa-dev/2006/Feb/msg00512.html), by John Gruber's post on crash
reporters, (http://daringfireball.net/2006/01/smart_crash_reports),
I've been working on a alternative CrashReporter.
This one differs from existing CrashReporters in a number of ways:
* More informative: the information that can be collected includes
contact information, user problem description, crash logs, log files,
preferences, and the output of arbitrary commands
* Highly configurable: the user interface and information to be
collected can be configured via an xml configuration file.
* XML property list default output to allow easy automatic processing
of incoming crash reports
* Extensible data collection architecture, so that you write plugins
to collect specific diagnostics for your target application, if the
existing types are not sufficient.
* Extensible delivery mechanism, to allow you to tune delivery to
your requirements.
* "BugReporter" mode, that can be used to collect information for non-
crashing bug reports in a standardised format.
* Can handle multiple bug/crash reports at a time.
* Reports can be saved for later delivery.
* Fully localizable, to allow users to be asked for bug reports in
their native language.
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If you are considering using a Crash Reporter for your app, this
might be worth checking out. Despite the feature set, its small
(currently 200k, unoptimised), and easy to use - drop the Bridge.[hm]
files into your project, and call a single Bridge method shortly
after your app starts up. Then drop the CrashReporter into your
bundle, and add a single Info.plist entry.
MMICrashReporter (working title) is currently in pre-beta, but if you
would like an advance preview, mail me at
email@hidden
cheers,
Martin
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