On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Gaute Hope <eg at gaute.vetsj.com> wrote: > For portability I would suggest starting to move towards the GError > scheme provided by glib (also used by gmime). This is a somewhat major > effort though since ensuring that error propagation is done right [0] is > somewhat tricky. It provides more or less the same functionality as > exceptions do in C++. > > There is also the problem of having to change the API - one way to avoid > that is to create wrappers that behave like the old API, but don't > handle errors that good. This requires the addition of addiontal _error > variations of the current set of functions. It will be a mess. > > [0] https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Error-Reporting.html
Here's a quick mockup of how that could look. Cheers, Gaute -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0001-mockup-Illustration-of-GError-for-error-reporting.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 4536 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20140821/8ac2eb32/attachment.bin>
