[buug] Best practices for stderr messages?
George Georgalis
george at galis.org
Fri Dec 24 15:33:55 PST 2010
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Karen Hogoboom <khogoboom at gmail.com> wrote:
....
>> (One thing that I'm doing to help accomplish this
>> is to provide references to published and unpublished articles that
>> discuss the issue raised by the warning/error, e.g., (see: Rubinson
>> 2009), which should help a bit.)
>
> I like the idea of providing the links. That's a good idea.
Yes, reference the RFC, requirement or whatever justified the test in
the first place. Nothing worse than an archaic error message that
requires issue resolution to identify the problem.
-George
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