Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:02 PM David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> wrote:
>>
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > +    ret = notmuch_database_open_with_config (database_path, mode,
>> > +                                          config_path, profile, &db,
>> > +                                          NULL);
>>
>> I'm curious why you ignore the error_message ouput parameter. Of course
>> it's valid and supported for library users to do this, but this way
>> there is no way for users of the ruby bindings to retrieve the
>> additional information about the error. Particularly in the case of
>> Xapian exceptions, this can be helpful for debugging.
>
> Because the patch is complex enough as it is. It shouldn't be that
> difficult to add a new notmuch_rb_status_raise function that takes an
> error message and produces a proper Ruby exception with that message,
> but that should be done in a separate patch.
>

Agreed.

d
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