-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Felipe Contreras wrote: | On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> On 2/20/08, Felipe Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> > b) Error are difficult to handle since bash doesn't have exceptions |> |> I disagree here: most errors are fatal anyway any non fatal errors can |> be printed and saved via the elog facility. | | Yes, for the most common usage that's true, but that think about this | example: I'm compiling gstreamer-plugins-good, which needs libraw1394, | but the compilation fails, perhaps that user is not interested in that | particular plugin so a dialog can pop up and the user can choose if to | continue without the libraw stuff or fail. | | I'm sure that can be done without exceptions but as the complexity | increases properly checking/passing around error values/messages | becomes tedious. |
That's what USE flags are for. - -- Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" Gentoo Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHwbyIBCmRZan6aegRArK/AJ9wBvqPZ9PErpxiVHgpkSLuCZIixQCdGiEB wvdMli4taTHJFVBoHYIzyLs= =/1k7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
