On Monday 01 August 2005 11:56, Terry Reedy wrote: > That is an impossibility. However, there is a middle path between that and > no defensive code. In the present case, you appear to acknowledge a known > easy way to mis-compile wxWidgets from Dabo's viewpoint. If there is a > known easy way to detect that misconfiguration (which I suspect there is), > and it is known that someone has tripped over that problem (which it now > is), then a nice error message like 'Sorry, Dabo need wxWidgets compiled > with the --include_stylized_text option' would certainly be friendlier than > a stack trace.
OK, that's more of what I had in mind. Truth be told, this is the first time we've run into this, and as a result I'll make the change to that import statement today. We've taken the attitude that when a bug/shortcoming is pointed out, we address it. But one problem with that is when you only have a handful of people actively using and testing it, you limit your potential for discovering problems. If nothing else, this thread has helped by pointing out one such shortcoming. ;-) -- -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
