On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 15:34, Julian Foad wrote: > 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.
I'll second that. > > - 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
