FYI, I landed a patch[1] yesterday that forked the Breakpad client code. Everything that was in toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/src/client is now in toolkit/crashreporter/breakpad-client. Google has switched Chromium to using Crashpad (their new crash reporting library) on Windows, OS X and Android, so that code is effectively unmaintained in Breakpad. The Linux client gets some fixes but they are mostly ChromeOS related, so I don't expect us to be missing much. We've had a number of changes recently that either needed invasive changes or API weirdness to upstream, and since nobody else is maintaining that code we might as well just have our own copy to change as we see fit. This means that you can now land changes to the client-side exception handling and minidump writing code with just the normal Mozilla review process, without upstreaming anything to Breakpad.
We'll still be using the tools (for dump_syms) and processor (for client-side stackwalking) parts of Breakpad from upstream, since those are actively maintained (for the time being). There is a bug open on looking into moving us to use Crashpad. I don't know what the benefits would be, aside from using code that's actually maintained, but it's likely to be a significant amount of work. If I had to choose I'd be more likely to spend the effort writing a replacement in Rust instead. -Ted 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336548 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
