From dev-return-9934-apmail-apr-dev-archive=apr.apache.org@apr.apache.org Fri Jun 06 20:12:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 6349 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jun 2003 20:12:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 6330 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2003 20:12:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3EE0F61E.4000100@xbc.nu> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:14:22 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: sl, en-gb, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sander Striker CC: "MATHIHALLI,MADHUSUDAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1)" , dev@apr.apache.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Be verbose during shl_load on HP-UX References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sander Striker wrote: >Madhu, > >Can we please end this thread? I think we had this discussion a year >ago on the exact same topic. The outcome of these discussions have >consistently been: outputting error messages to the user is the >responsibility of the application using the library, not of the >library itself. > >As to what started this thread: -1 on adding a flag that effectively >will spew errors to stderr. > > Seconded. Libraries should cater to applications, not the other way around. -- Brane Čibej http://www.xbc.nu/brane/