PSA: Enable KCrash for you application

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 3:54 AM Joshua Goins <josh at redstrate.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:06:03 AM EDT Nicolas Fella wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > TL;DR: Call KCrash::initialize() after setting up KAboutData
> >
> > crash reporting via DrKonqi to Bugzilla and Sentry is powered by the
> > KCrash framework, which acts as the crash handler inside the application.
> >
> > To install the crash handler you need to call KCrash::initialize() in
> > your application's main function. Since the crash handler relies on
> > information from KAboutData you should do it after the call to
> > KAboutData::setApplicationData(). For best results make sure to include
> > the application version in the about data.
>
> Thanks for posting this to the ML Nico. I'm wondering since 24.08 is close
> to
> releasing I want to get KCrash in for some of my applications. We're past
> dependency freeze, though. Assuming I do the usual way of using KCrash
> (adding
> to .kde-ci.yml and using __has_include("KCrash")) would that need approval
> from the release team to make an exception? Or is it so inconsequential it
> should be OK?
>

My view would be that you're already depending on one or more KDE
Frameworks, so using another isn't an issue.
This is essentially the same as using additional API from within a library
that you already depend on.


>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>
>
Cheers,
Ben
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