[Libguestfs] Re: [PATCH 4/5 version 2] New tool: virt-tar

[Matthew Booth]

On 19/10/09 18:14, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Hmmmm I like die.  It also shows people where the error happened which
> I think is an advantage (but without the verbosity of Python stack
> traces).

If the message is completely descriptive on its own (as these are), 
there's no added benefit *to the user* in die: it's just untidy. You 
like it, but you're not the user ;) In my mind, die indicates that the 
program has not operated correctly.

Matt
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