Could I moan for a moment about our status messages? There seem to be a lot of them that don't give enough information even to know what object has a problem. The latest (which I will track down and, I hope, improve) is in the 1.7.1 filter-media tool, which this morning delivered this report (quoted in its entirety):
Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Found a TextHeaderAtom not followed by a TextBytesAtom or TextCharsAtom: Followed by 3999 Invalid Word Format It may be that a third-party library or external tool not under our control is doing that, but in most cases there is a way for DSpace to learn that there was a problem, and in such cases it would be really helpful to say what the tool was working on at the time. This doesn't mean that DSpace is particularly bad. Lots of otherwise outstanding code has such problems, because dealing with fiddly error conditions is tedious and not much fun. It tends to be put off until later, although we know that "tomorrow never comes." But I intend to do better and I'd like to invite others to be similarly resolved. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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