gEDA-dev: libgeda error reporting

[Ivan Stankovic]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:35:12PM -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> > While working on gattrib, I noticed that libgeda
> > prints errors and uses calls like fprintf(stderr, ...).
> >
> > So when you try to open up a nonexistant file in
> > a program using libgeda (gattrib in this case), you
> > get errors both from libgeda and from the program.
> > Is this intended?
> 
> Originally intended, but should be removed or fixed now.
> libgeda calls should return error status and if necessary
> write something to the log.

Actually, I would rather avoid writing anything to
log files (or stdout/stderr) from libgeda, as this
seems better handled by programs using libgeda
functions.

I'll investigate GError, as suggested by Peter, and
see if I can come up with a reasonable patch.

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