On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Peter Moulder wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:35:57AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Not sure ... I'd like to get any remaining common warnings/assertions cleaned up (if the fixes are simple) so they don't annoy Windows users.
If it is simple to do, that might be worthwhile, but not if it'd hold up the release. For next release, it sounds like it would be very worthwhile to get these msgs redirected.
I'm hesitant to sweep problems under the rug like this, and deprive us of notification of real bugs.
If we have problems of g_log being called (via g_error / g_return_if_fail etc.), then I'd consider doing work like propogating the requirements to callers and ensuring that there are no real problems.
I'm not too sure what these warning/assertion problems in question are though.
The issue was simply that on Windows when one prints to the console, it causes a console window to pop up (God knows why) which looks woefully out of place and makes Inkscape look unprofessional. On Linux, it's moderately better - it throws the messages away.
The solution that I think would benefit us to adopt, would be to develop a redirection mechanism that allows these messages to be more usefully directed - to a place that does not cause annoyance but yet that is also possible to view and copy/paste into a bug report.
Bryce