what about having an automatic error report tool in grass gis.
which can send mail to grass-dev mailinglist with some details of the os, grass version etc… generated by error reporting tool
so that users need only to specify error description.
Many problems can be cleared such using an older library version, etc…
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Mohammed Rashad K.M
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Mohammed Rashad wrote:
what about having an automatic error report tool in grass gis.
which can send mail to grass-dev mailinglist with some details of the os,
grass version etc.. generated by error reporting tool
so that users need only to specify error description.
Many problems can be cleared such using an older library version, etc...
Figuring out how to send mail from a program or script isn't
straightforward. Generating a standardised report which the user can
attach is more realistic.
OTOH, a lot of the problems which affect GRASS as a whole would also
affect any error-reporting tool. E.g. if the tool is written in
Python, a broken Python installation would prevent the tool from
working; likewise for a shell script needing a working MSys
installation on Windows.
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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
This tool provide a support for GRASS GIS as a utility installed with GRASS GIS.
I planned to develop in python for portability and send mail from python to grass-dev list is not a big problem.
A broken python installation is a serious issue. For that we need further discussion. But that this can report errors from the grass if there is no failures in python installation. For windows we don’t need msys if we deal with python.
Apart from sending mail to grass-dev or grass-user, this creates a report which will help to find the correct error in the modules, not the error program or such thing. It can find which module is broken, grass version, if the problem is due to older version of support library. etc…
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com> wrote:
Mohammed Rashad wrote:
what about having an automatic error report tool in grass gis.
which can send mail to grass-dev mailinglist with some details of the os,
grass version etc… generated by error reporting tool
so that users need only to specify error description.
Many problems can be cleared such using an older library version, etc…Figuring out how to send mail from a program or script isn’t
straightforward. Generating a standardised report which the user can
attach is more realistic.OTOH, a lot of the problems which affect GRASS as a whole would also
affect any error-reporting tool. E.g. if the tool is written in
Python, a broken Python installation would prevent the tool from
working; likewise for a shell script needing a working MSys
installation on Windows.–
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
–
Regards,
Mohammed Rashad K.M
http://keralainfo.web4all.in/
+919496620801