If the program cannot find options.xml, I strongly suggest that it still should give a 
sensible (if brief) reply to "--help".  This reply should tell the user how to help it 
to find options.xml.

- Julian


"C. Hotchkiss" wrote:
> 
> Erik Hofman wrote:
> 
> > C. Hotchkiss wrote:
> > >
> > ...
> > > If the file isn't needed because an error wasn't made, does the program abort
> > > because it cannot find the file? Admittedly I'm being lazy in not testing this
> > > myself.
> >
> > It only throws an exception when --help (or an incorrect argument) was
> > specified or *and* the file options.xml doesn't exsist.
> 
> So, does the program abort or advise and go on? I'm thinking that the exception
> event would be rare, but even so, a miss installation or an accidentally deleted
> file shouldn't leave the user scratching his or her head. When easily done, good
> hints about why things went wrong should be given.

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