On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 12:14:42 +0100
Nicolas George <[email protected]> wrote:
> L'octidi 8 ventôse, an CCXXV, Mark Thompson a écrit :
> > And what would the user conclude from that message? Have they done
> > something incorrectly? If so, what? Or is it a bug in the filter?
> > All of these messages pretty much require reading the source code and
> > looking at the documentation for the relevant libmfx function to
> > determine what they mean. (Well, maybe not "out of memory".)
>
> > I disagree. For normal output, yes, this sort of thing is unhelpful.
> > For fatal error cases, precise information such as error codes should
> > be provided so that someone reading the source code can determine
> > exactly what the error was and where it happened.
>
> Anything above the verbose level is meant for users, not just
> developers. If reading the source code is necessary to understand it,
> then you are doing something seriously wrong.
Yes, we should print "Something went wrong :-(" instead. This will be
the least confusing for users.
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