From: Richard Clamp Date: 12:54 on 26 Jan 2005 Subject: APIs that don't have good error-reporting mechanisms If there was a decent error-reporting mechanism in Email::LocalDelivery I wouldn't have just had to pepper Email::LocalDelivery::Ezmlm with Log4perl debugging statements to get this fricking mailing list working again.
From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Date: 14:22 on 26 Jan 2005
Subject: Re: APIs that don't have good error-reporting mechanisms
Ah yes. My favorite symptom:
The operation failed because: the operation completed successfully.
From: Robert G. Werner Date: 06:41 on 27 Jan 2005 Subject: Re: APIs that don't have good error-reporting mechanisms Peter da Silva wrote: > Ah yes. My favorite symptom: > > The operation failed because: the operation completed successfully. > > I like how File::NCopy will succeed and then fail to report that it succeded on the version of perl I'm using with a Web Host but works fine on my machine. I haven't dug deep enough to figure out what is going on but I have a hunch it's due to the version of perl.
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