drkonqi and the windows build

[Hannah von Reth]

So with the availability of KDE applications in the Windows store we 
don't need drkonqi.

We get perfect reports, if the users privacy settings allow it, for each 
submitted app separately.

Every maintainer can request access to the store, for submissions and 
reports.

So I guess we should focus on bringing more apps to the store, rather 
than porting drkonqi.


Cheers,

Hannah

On 17.09.20 16:54, Harald Sitter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 4:17 PM Hannah von Reth <vonreth at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> looks like some quoted text is missing.
>>
>> I have no idea bout the state of drkonqi on windows,
>> ages ago a gsoc student did *things* but I don't think anybody was ever
>> able to use it.
>>
>> I can remember a more recent communication that people where trying
>> again to get it to work.
> Ah sorry.
>
> The original:
>> drkonqi is part of plasma, yet it gets built on windows. shall we stop
>> doing that? windows keeps not having expected plasma requirements
>> because the rest of plasma is not on windows
>>
>> https://build.kde.org/job/Plasma/job/drkonqi/job/kf5-qt5%20WindowsMSVCQt5.14/
>>
>> this already happened a couple weeks ago and was then temporarily
>> reverted but now it fails again. uselessly I might add. why we even
>> want to have drkonqi on windows at all is equally questionable as the
>> platform already has a far superior crash reporting system.
> I guess the question is mostly.... do we think that pursuing drkonqi
> on windows is useful at all?
>
> The way I see it we'd either want to use the windows error reporting
> system (to send reports off to microsoft and then get them from there)
> or we'd need a fair amount of extra code in drkonqi to tie into
> local-only WER (I'm assuming that's a thing based on the WER API).
> Since we distribute the binaries we only need a mini dump and the
> exact build version to then grab our debug symbols for that build and
> do server-side tracing, so the actual live-tracing feature of drkonqi
> is fairly uninteresting IMHO.
>
> HS