Alfredo Portes wrote: > Ray, > > On 9/2/06, *Raymond E. Rogers* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alfredo, > Oh, please please; what good is "literate programing" if nobody > understands what is said. Known > error outs should automatically tell the user (typically inexperienced) > what to do. > > Ray > > Alfredo Portes wrote: > and the >> error is shown to the user telling them what is needed. >> > > I would argue the contrary, that this doesn't always happen. Windows > systems are the best example. What in the world do I do if I get a > window saying: > > "unknown error". > "error: c456cpetht..." > "the system has recovered from a serious error" > I have no idea, and that was the point I was trying to make.
> That doesn't have to do anything with LP. And type of error messages > like this are written by world top programmers. There are some people that would argue that, but I won't go there:) > > My point was that I see now two camps in the mailing list. I could be a > regular user of Axiom, so my hope will be always to just say "apt-get > install axiom" or any other package manager. If I am trying to compile > it and I am missing something, then this should be clear. Who has not > spent time trying to figure out some dependency because it was not clear > what broke at compilation time. (maybe only me, nooby :-) ). yes > > In a perfect world Axiom would not have any dependency, but if it must It must unless we are going to reinvent the universe; the point is to make it clear and explicit. > I understand that it makes it harder for the testing purposes on other > systems, but I think is not that much of a problem as it sounds in this > thread. Of course I could be totally wrong, with everybody more > experienced than me actually doing the work (easy to talk in the bench) . It's a challenge, but one that must be met for wide usage; at least until "The Operating System"is finally developed. > > I hope that was the problem you were talking about, and not my English. > Sorry if I am not clear in my writting (I have only 4 years living in > US. Funny enough 4 years ago I was not able to ask for coffee in a > restaurant, much less think that I would be able to write suggestions > for such a great project like Axiom). Absolutely nothing to do with you or your writing; I was just making a plea for know errors to give guidance about how to fix things. Regards, Jose Alfredo Perez Enjoy, it's 63 in Maine, that's the high. The New England weather forecast a couple of weeks ago: prepare for early frost; after all, summer is almost 2/3 over. Ray _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer