reportbug for m$

[Derek Neighbors]

DCL could be used. :)

-Derek

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, der.hans wrote:

> moin, moin,
> 
> if we're gonna be helping people install Free Software on m$, then we should
> also have a reportbug mechanism for them.
> 
> The reportbug program would let them describe the bug and then send the info
> to us ( or wherever it should be going ).
> 
> It should have to ability to automagically gather some info about what's on
> their box ( program version, lib versions, etc. ), but they should have to
> manually trigger that every time. I think they should have to intentionally
> turn over information like that.
> 
> We should have a mechanism to contact them with updates about the bug report
> as it's investigated.
> 
> It has to be Free Software. Duh :). It would be good if they don't have to
> install a scripting language to make this happen. Python can be compiled.
> Does that include libraries? In other words, could we make a statically
> linked, pre-compiled, self-contained Python app? Would that be huge?
> 
> The app, of course, need to be GUI.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
>