Re: [Docutils-develop] Feature request: exit status

[David G. <go...@py...>]

Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> I'd like to process RST with a makefile so that I get non-zero exit
> status when there are warnings - but without aborting on the first
> problem.  In other words, I want to decouple the sensitivty of the
> exit status to message severity be different from the sensitivity to
> abort processing - unless I missed something, currently the exit
> status is non-zero if and only if docutils aborts processing.

Sounds reasonable.  How exactly would it work?  What exit status would 
result from each of these situations?

* Document processes with no issues.

* Level-1 (INFO) system message is generated but not displayed (it's
   below the report_level setting); process completes (it's below the
   halt_level setting).

* Level-1 (INFO) system message is generated and *is* displayed;
   process completes.

* Level-1 (INFO) system message is generated and process aborts.

Would the severity level affect the exit status?  There's Level-2 
(WARNING), Level-3 (ERROR), and Level-4 (SEVERE).

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