Re: Why leave the error handling to the caller?

Malcolm McLean wrote, On 24/06/07 00:52:

"Flash Gordon" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:nrk0l4x0ug.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Malcolm McLean wrote, On 23/06/07 16:22:

"Flash Gordon" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Of course, this is going far OT so you will have to go else where to learn how to write makefiles for your system.

Nothing OT on the library debate.

<snip long explanation about the pains you had linking to X>

How to use makefiles so that the people you ship the source to don't need to know how to link is OT, and that is what I am suggesting was the better approach. Also the reason it takes you an hour to do what takes me a few minutes is OT. Learning the interface to a library may take a while, but linking to it only takes me minutes.

The details of makefiles are OT, but the reason you can link up a library in minutes whilst it takes me an hour or more is certainly topical, and very interesting.

Either I am brilliant at finding, reading and understanding the documentation and examples or you are terrible at it. Or, I suppose, it could just be that I know how the systems work and how to ask it the right questions and you don't.

Personally I don't think I'm as good as my colleagues do and certainly don't consider myself to be brilliant, but our respective abilities are not topical here.
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