Re: GtkBuilder report

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 13:14 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
[...]
> As Tristan also mentioned for this specific case in another email, an
> abort() in the GtkBuilder parser is ridiculously useless to the
> developer: if there's an error in one spot in a several-hundred/thousand
> line file, what's needed is information as to where in the file the
> error is.  Sure, you'll notice it, but GtkBuilder's poor error-reporting
> API design makes it that much harder to track down the actual problem.

Just so that people dont start getting scared, I'd just like to clarify
that this is not a restriction caused by the GtkBuilder design.

The original write-up doesnt include contextual error reports
for every case of a parse failure, IMO that is simply a bug,
that doesnt mean that things need to be redisigned or anything
to correct it, just some patchwork to be done - no big deal.

Cheers,
                -Tristan