At 17:20 15.02.2001 +0100, you wrote:
>> That's a reasonable demand. There is a difference between finding the
>> configuration file and properly parsing it. The desired semantics is to
>see if
>> config file was found and correctly parsed not just found. This requires
>> that the configurators need to throw exceptions in case of parsing errors
>> which is not the case today.
>
>I have posted a patch recently to cope with that problem but never got any
>reply. Did it not make it to the list or was it so bad that nobody cared to
>even comment on it?
Unless I am missing something, there is a lot more to this than throwing an exception
when the config file is not found. Most notable, throwing exceptions in a method that
hid them previously breaks backward compatibility. On the other hand you are right to
insist. :-) Ceki
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