stas 2003/04/03 21:41:00
Modified: . STATUS
Log:
log the issue with missing 'Usage:' messages in most xs wrappers
Revision Changes Path
1.44 +16 -2 modperl-2.0/STATUS
Index: STATUS
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RCS file: /home/cvs/modperl-2.0/STATUS,v
retrieving revision 1.43
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -r1.43 -r1.44
--- STATUS 3 Apr 2003 06:41:22 -0000 1.43
+++ STATUS 4 Apr 2003 05:41:00 -0000 1.44
@@ -53,7 +53,21 @@
* we have a dependency check problem when xs/*/*.h use code from
xs/modperl_xs*.h, when the latter change 'make' won't rebuild the
dependant files
-
+
+* most of the xs wrappers print no "Usage: " when wrong args/wrong
+ number of args are passed, would be nice to add the usage message
+ whenever incorrect arguments error is logged. e.g., when
+ APR::URI->parse() gets the wrong first arg (non-pool) it prints:
+
+ p is not of type APR::Pool at ...
+
+ whereas it's not so obvious that the function expected the pool
+ object, neither it specifies which ("arg number") of the arguments
+ is wrong.
+
+ possible solution: add a new field to the map files, which will be
+ used as a usage message whenever an argument error occurs.
+
* we should stop generating xs/apache_*, at least for a reason that
it's incomplete and will be never complete as we don't keep up with
changes with ap_/apr_ namespace. Also we don't have the logic to
