#10 Improve error reporting
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Subject: Re: Robustness
From: Nicola Ken Barozzi save contact
To: krysalis-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:39:45
Steve Meyfroidt wrote:
> Congrats guys and gals, Centipede is really coming
along great! :-)
Thanks, in fact we are getting more and more a team,
and it's sooo cool!
:-)
> I'd like to pose a philosophical question though: how
will centipede explain
> errors to the user?
>
> Let me explain. Yesterday I tried to build (with the
CVS version) and found
> that it was bombing with some kind of internal error
within jxpath. After
> much diff'ing between my config and the helloworld I
finally discovered that
> the problem was that I didn't have a "test" src
directory (it's early days
> on my project [an excuse]!).
Gee, you are right.
These JXPath errors really suck big time!
I gotta fix the JXPath task then at least.
> Similarly, at the moment I can build OK with
centipede despite Cocoon
> whinging incessantly about some weird stuff I don't
understand.
Hehehe... I got round fixing the Cocoon commandline
and now it's much
more informative and doesn't choke on missing links...
will update it
when I get round to it.
> Can centipede shield the user from this sort of thing?
Or is the intent to
> make it so robust that it can recover cleanly
from "errors" like this
> without exposing the user to the inner workings of the
build process?
It should definately give the user better error messages,
buit from my
work on Cocoon about error handling I know how har it is
to get it going.
Add a RFE to our list on SF, and give it higher than
average priority,
so that we don't forget about it.
--
Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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