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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die"
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:20:45
Message-Id: 20090824202044.17f7118c@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die" by Ryan Hill
1 Hi,
2
3 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>:
4
5 > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:56:41 +0100
6 > David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com> wrote:
7 >
8 > > Does anyone have any opinions on which of the four options (#1
9 > > make die respect nonfatal, #2 make die always die, #3 add a new
10 > > die variant that respects nonfatal, #4 make regular die respect
11 > > nonfatal, and add a new variant that doesn't) we should go with?
12 > > We should definitely get this resolved and agreed on before EAPI
13 > > 3 is finalised.
14 >
15 > I'd like die to respect nonfatal. People using nonfatal should check
16 > beforehand that the functions they're calling won't do anything
17 > stupid if die's are ignored. If there's something that absolutely
18 > has to die, nonfatal or not, then use a variable. I guess that's #4?
19
20 I agree here (yes, I know, a "ME TOO" posting, but I say this as PMS
21 team member).
22
23 V-Li
24
25 --
26 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
27 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
28
29 <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die" Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die" "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die" "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>