[sword-devel] Reliability with wrong input?

Martin Gruner sword-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:14:08 +0200


> There is a difference between detecting & reporting and fixing.  If the
> application crashes, you're not likely to get a decent bug report, just a
> frustrated user.  If they get an error dialog that says "this module is
> bad, please report it to this email address..." you're much more likely to
> get a helpful report, IMHO.

I completely agree. Esp. the filters in sword need more robustness than now. 
Ideally, users should know which module has which kind of error in which 
place to give good reports.

Martin