Jani Nikula <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Tomi Ollila <[email protected]> wrote: >> After database has been compacted, there are steps to put the new >> database into place -- and these steps may fail. In case such >> failure happens, provide better information how to resolve it. > > I disagree with having a library spew all this information out. For each > case, I think it should be sufficient to just say what happened > (e.g. "rename a -> b failed" + strerror). I don't think a library's > error messages should be a tutorial on how to fix things. >
I can live with whatever the concensus level of verbosity, but not the fprintf's; as I mentioned, for once we have a log hook. That might also somewhat comfort Jani, since the library client has the option of ignoring the spewing. d _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list [email protected] http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
