Hey Johannes, On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pranit, > > On Fri, 20 May 2016, Pranit Bauva wrote: > >> Frankly, I have no idea what you mean by libification but I will use >> error() since efforts for libification have already started. > > The term "libification" is frequently used in the Git project: it means to > convert code that was formerly used in a standalone program to make it > usable as a library function. > > The main differences: > > - in the standalone program, you can get away with calling die() when > anything goes wrong. Not so in a library function: you need to give the > caller a chance to fail gracefully, or even to continue. > > - in a standalone program, you can be sloppy and "let exit() clean up", > i.e. omit free() calls or even close() calls. In library functions, this > is not possible. > > - in a standalone program, you may mess with the stdio handles. This is > an absolute no-go in library functions. > > There are other differences, of course. The gist is that you have to be a > lot more careful for library functions.
Thanks for the explanation. It seems a bit clearer to me now. Regards, Pranit Bauva > > Ciao, > Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
