Re: notmuch as a shared object aka library knigge

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,\r
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+Subject: Re: notmuch as a shared object aka library knigge\r
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+On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:22:00 +0100, Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:\r
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+> That wasn't meant to sound as harsh as it probably did. I seriously\r
+> hope that someone is around who enjoys to hack on the c/c++ part of\r
+> the library and is willing fix problems in it.\r
+\r
+Luckily I deleted my snarky reply ;). \r
+\r
+> And I worked around the two functions (that I know of) that call\r
+> exit(3) by conditionally raising exceptions in the python bindings,\r
+> but this is only meant as a intermediate fix, a hack that should be\r
+> removed as soon as the library is fixed.\r
+\r
+Can you make test cases to document exactly when internal errors are\r
+occuring in the library? Somehow it seems like the CLI is not triggering\r
+them. It might help clarify the discussion and/or motivate people to fix\r
+them.\r
+\r
+d\r