On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:52:08PM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: > Ranting is all very well, but I've yet to hear a suggestion from you > about how the libraries should handle unrecoverable errors. Like, for > example, the case where wc.db contains inconsistent and/or invalid data.
It's already been pointed out that throwing a descriptive error message at the user and aborting whatever operation is running is better than asserting. The end result is the same -- the operation is aborted. But an assert confuses users because it provides no useful information to them.
