Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> writes:
> Background:
>
> I had a go at adding the previously discussed $EDITOR feature, and it seems
> to be somewhat working here. Now I want to add a good set of error codes to
> make the client bail out nicely all over whereever an error might occur.
>
> So, where do I add these new error codes? To my surprise, we "pollute" the
> global "include/svn_error_codes.h" file with command line client errors right
> now. I don't think this is a good idea. The command line client should keep a
> private set of errors.
>
> We can't possibly have all clients add all their error codes in the
> subversion error code header file!
>
> I think the error codes in that file should apply to all functionality
> provided my subversion libraries. Functionality outside the core libraries
> should not have error codes in there.
>
> Comments?
I agree completely. Subversion should define a "client_error_begin"
that signifies the first available error code after Subversion's own
errors. Client can then define their error array to be
SVN_ERR_CLIENT_ERROR_BEGIN + 0 (+ 1, 2, 3, 4 ...).
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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:58 2006