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Re: [stellation-res] Command line user diagnostics
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:20:23PM -0400, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 20:03, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> > I am finding quite a number of places in the command line implementation of
> > Stellation where errors in user input are resulting in stack trace dumps in
> > addition to problem text descriptions. I feel that it looks bad and serves
> > little troubleshooting purpose to include a stack trace for simple user
> > input errors. I feel that stack traces should be reserved for programming
> > errors only.
> >
> > How to the rest of you feel on this issue>
>
> I'm with you on this; in fact, I think I might even take a
> stronger stance than what you proposed. I don't think that
> a "production" version of Stellation should *ever* dump a stack trace
> unless the user specified debug mode.
>
Right you are. I had never put in the code. I just did. It should be checked
in shortly.
dave
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Dave Shields, IBM Research, shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
