Re: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-05-01 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I am sure that it can read from cvs' stdout instead of stderr, too. Yes, it *could*. But at the moment it expects this particular input from stderr and all (?) other versions of CVS servers send it at stderr. There

Re: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-29 Thread Harald Dunkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to prevent an out-of-the-brain change: if they would we sent to stdout, this would break at least SmartCVS. I don't want to break your GUI, but I am sure that it can read from cvs' stdout instead of stderr, too. Wouldn't it be more consistent to reserve stderr

Re: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-29 Thread gnu-cvs
but I am sure that it can read from cvs' stdout instead of stderr, too. Yes, it *could*. But at the moment it expects this particular input from stderr and all (?) other versions of CVS servers send it at stderr. There are already too much differences between GNU CVS and CVSNT... Wouldn't it be

cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-28 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Any special reason why cvs prints a list of cvs server: Updating modulename on stderr instead of stdout? This is surely just a log message, which is supposed to be printed on stdout. On a huge project the _real_ error messages are hidden between all the garbage. It would be

RE: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-28 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Harald Dunkel wrote: Any special reason why cvs prints a list of cvs server: Updating modulename on stderr instead of stdout? This is surely just a log message, which is supposed to be printed on stdout. On a huge project the _real_ error messages are hidden between all the

Re: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-28 Thread Harald Dunkel
Jim.Hyslop wrote: I can't comment on why these messages go to stderr instead of stdout, but I will mention that the global -q flag suppresses them. I use '-q' so much it's in my .cvsrc file ;-) I have seen -q and -Q, but I don't want to suppress these messages completely. They should just

Re: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-28 Thread gnu-cvs
Just to prevent an out-of-the-brain change: if they would we sent to stdout, this would break at least SmartCVS. -- Best regards, Thomas Singer _ smartcvs.com Harald Dunkel schrieb: Jim.Hyslop wrote: I can't comment on why these messages go to stderr instead of stdout, but I will