johansen at Sun.COM wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:08:20PM -0600, Evan Layton wrote: >> johansen at sun.com wrote: >>> - The error structure defined below is not sufficiently extensible. It >>> may work for today's errors, but it's not flexible enough to grow with >>> any further changes to libbe. Consumers aren't going to want to >>> change their code every 6 months, when new functionality gets added. >> Can you describe what you are referring to here? I'm not sure I see >> what new functionality within the the consumer would cause this to >> need to be more extensible. The consumer decides what goes into the >> strings described. >> >> Is there something specific you have in mind here? > > That's part of the point. It's hard to see exactly what will be coming > down the road, but the existing structure limits you to 5 character > pointers, and that's it. I described more details about my concerns > further on in my e-mail, with relevant portions of your proposal inline. > You either didn't read those comments, or have chosen to ignore them.
The responses the the rest of your comments are in a subsequent email, it was not my intention to ignore them. We'll continue the rest of this from that email.
