On Wednesday 24 December 2008 13:44:39 Peter Miller wrote: > Dear Mentors,
Hello Peter, > Package: libexplain > Version: 0.4 > Upstream Author: (myself) Peter Miller > URL: http://libexplain.sourceforge.net/ > License: GPLv3 or later > > "The libexplain project provides a library which may be used to explain > Unix and Linux system call errors. This will make your application's > error messages much more informative to your users. The library is not > quite a drop-in replacement for strerror, but it comes close. Each > system call has a dedicated libexplain function." Sharing code is always good idea! ;-) However, I don't quite understand why should developers prefer the functions from libexplain instead of already existing ones like perror(3), strerror(3) strerror_r(3) (which is GNU-specific, ok), and probably some more I don't quite recall right now. Note that I'm not saying that your library is useless (I really had a brief glance over it), I just can't get it what is so cool about it. If it is an alternative to above mentioned functions, then why do we need sucn an alternative? RFS: also means that you have prepared some preliminary debian packages for your piece of software, and you are requesting a review and sponsorship ;-) -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
