On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:23:17PM +0800, debian@computerdatasafe.com.au wrote: > > martin@strakt.com said: > > Since we must make sure nothing is printed to stderr by anything (it > > would screw up all frontends but text), we should somewhere redirect > > all of that into a log file, that could be copied into /target as > > well. I'm not sure what the best place for doing that is... The > > debian-installer script? main-menu? > > There's a really good chance I'm missing something here, but I don't have > earlier mail on the thread. > > Are we talking about hiding critical information from the user? Putting it in > a log is good, and should be done. So to is showing it to the user when it > happens. Since the frontend is the program that's responsible for presenting stuff to the user, the backend should damn well keep quiet! It's not a big problem with the text frontend, since it's line-based, but when we start using the slang frontend (and I've tried it) it'll be a mess. Of course we should not just throw away the stderr prints, they should definitely be in a log file, and critical things could be presented to the user with a NOTE widget. /Martin -- Martin Sjögren martin@strakt.com ICQ : 41245059 Phone: +46 (0)31 7710870 Cell: +46 (0)739 169191 GPG key: http://www.strakt.com/~martin/gpg.html
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