[ANN]PyCrash 0.4pre1 released

[max khesin]

Great! And thanks for the license update, I was waiting to use this at work!


Carmine Noviello wrote:

> Hi,
> a new version of PyCrash is released new features and improvement.You
> can download it at:
> 
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98026&package_id=111026&release_id=220726
> 
> Changelog:
> 
> * PyCrash now handles correctly new-style classes
> * Added onExceptionRaised() method to PyCrash class, which notifies when
>   and how many times an uncaught exception is raised
> * Now all PyCrash classes inherit from "object"
> * Added new utils.Encrypt.py module, that contains the
>   EncryptedPyCrash class. This class allows developers to
>   automatically encrypt crash dumps using RSA algorithm, in order to
>   protect sensible data
> * Added two scripts: keygen.py and decrypt.py that allow user to
>   generate public/private key pair and decrypt file generated by
>   EncryptedPyCrash class.
> 
> Moreover, starting from release 0.2.1, PyCrash is distributed under the
> terms
> of LGPL software license.
> 
> A next version of PyCrash Viewer will come soon, in order to support
> these
> new features.
> 
> Enjoy!
> _______________________________________________________________________
> About PyCrash Project:
> PyCrash is a Run-Time Exception Dumper which handles uncaught exceptions
> during the execution of Python programs and collects information about
> the program context. PyCrash can be very useful in report bug
> information,
> because the programmer can easily analyse the program execution context
> of the crashed application.
> 
> Major information collected by PyCrash in the crash dump is:
> 
> - Information about operating system, Python and Python Standard
>   Library version and general information about the program that is
>   crashed (e.g., program name and version, time at witch program
>   started and ended, and so on)
> 
> - Information about the uncaught exceptions, like the exception type,
>   the context (namely method name) in which the exception occurred and
>   the exception value
> 
> - General information about variables state
> 
> - Information about the stack of each thread, like the list of stack
>   frames, the variables value in each stack frame, and so on
> 
> - General information about source code, like variable and function
>   position in source file that can be useful for the programmer to find
>   quickly bugs in source tree
> 
> The format of the crash dump file generated by PyCrash is XML, so the
> programmer can easily read this file to understand why the program is
> crashed.
> 
> Now, is also available a GUI browser, named PyCrash Viewer, which allows
> developers to analyze quickly and easily PyCrash crash dump files in a
> graphical manner.
> 
> Next version of PyCrash will include at least these features:
> * HTML dumper, that stores crash dump in HTML format rather then
>   XML
> 
> More information can be found at:
> 
> http://www.pycrash.org
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> <P><A HREF="http://www.pycrash.org";>PyCrash 0.4pre1</A> - a crash
> handler for Python written applications. (01-03-04)</P>
> 
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