On Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:56:30 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:41:36PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:23:37 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > This commit bundles the ocaml-augeas library (upstream here:
> >
http://git.annexia.org/?p=ocaml-augeas.git;a=summary). It's identical
> > to the upstream version and should remain so.
> >
> > We can work towards using system ocaml-augeas, when it's more widely
> > available.
> > ---
>
> IMHO it would be better if the Augeas.Error exception had all the
> available details, i.e. code, error message, minor message, and details.
> Right now it does not even include any of those, so it is hard for
> users to differentiate the error handling depending on the actual error.
> Also, IMHO failures related to ENOMEM should caml_raise_out_of_memory().
>
> I guess this is not doable anymore, to avoid breaking the ocaml-augeas
> API? If it is doable, I'm willing to cook up a patch.
I'm not really fussed about that API. The only constraint is that
this change would have to go into ocaml-augeas (ie. the upstream
project) first. If you want to have a go at a patch then please do.