Re: [Plplot-devel] plwarn, plabort, plexit versus ctest (Was -DHAVE_NUMPY=OFF does not work for svn trunk)

[Maurice L. <mj...@br...>]

Andrew Ross writes:
 > 
 > Works for me. Although some suitable phrasing to distinguish between
 > plwarn and plabort would be be good. plabort is aborting the function
 > so will probably produce odd results, but it is not fatal and is not 
 > aborting whole program. 

Sorry for not responding until now.  The history of this IIRC is that all
plabort's were at one time plexit's.  However since that was very unfriendly
to interactive applications e.g. plotting GUI's, the behavior was changed
but the phrasing remained roughly the same.  It *is* still an error, in
that the function is aborted (and in some cases there may be associated memory
leakage), so I'm not sure WARNING conveys the right meaning either.  But
either is ok with me.

-- 
Maurice LeBrun