Re: Why leave the error handling to the caller?


"Roland Pibinger" <rpbg123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:467cffc0.7076515@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:05:40 +0100, "Malcolm McLean" wrote:
"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But I don't have any problem depending on /good/ code. Do you?

Yes. I am currently writing BabyX purely to avoid depending on Motif. Motif
is a far better toolkit than I could write, but I don't have it installed on
my machine. I can get it, but then that will mean that everyone who wants to
play about with my program will have to do the same. So I took the decision
to depend just on Xlib, hence BabyX.

So your users will depend on your BabyX instead of Motif? There's a
fine line between what you do and NIH syndrome.

Sure. But BabyX will ship as C source files bundled with the rest of the code. So just typing gcc *.c will build it - admittedly you have to link in Xlib, which took me about an hour to figure out how to do, and OpenGL, which was easy, just -lGL will link it. If it is another hour to figure out how to link in Motif, people won't do it. The users are mainly biochemists who do a little bit of programming, not, like me, programmers who have learnt a bit of biochemistry.

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