Make error messages more useful: add a URI

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Tue Oct 21 12:10:37 EDT 2014


On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Wang Shouhua wrote:

> On 9 October 2014 23:07, Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu> wrote:
> >> [libdefaults]
> >
> >>     err_fmt = %E. Please see https://whatever.example/%N
> >
> > We would probably accept a patch for this, as long as it doesn't turn
> > out to be a lot of code.  There does need to be an internal API to get
> > the unadorned message for the places where we augment or copy error
> > messages, or an equivalent means of handling those cases without doubly
> > applying the err_fmt.
>
> So basically you say localization doesn't matter for MIT?

I do not follow the reasoning leading you to this conclusion.  Can you
please give more detail for why you say this?

-Ben


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