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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directori
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories |
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Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:01:28 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>
>> But this subdir stuff: you're not talking about "saving the day".
>> You're talking about saving somebody, what, say an average of 10m
>> puzzling over a rare, confusing error message?
> No, since this error will typically happen during or before
> their tla import, these will tend to be new users. And they'll
> conclude that tla is borked and chuck it.
FUD is not an argument.
> And if they get an error message that tla was unable to test for the
> existance of {arch} in subdirectory that isn't supposed to have one
> a) they may conclude that tla requires an {arch} in every subdir
Then write the error message carefully to avoid that confusion.
> b) they may conclude that tla is borked and chuck it
I stopped reading here.
-t
- [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Robin Green, 2004/04/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Nikolai Weibull, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Andrew Suffield, 2004/04/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Nikolai Weibull, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Andrew Suffield, 2004/04/26