Re: gcalctool errors

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

lör 2003-08-23 klockan 18.24 skrev Ole Laursen:
> Has anyone discussed with the gcalctool maintainer the error messages
> from mp.c? E.g.
> 
>   #: gcalctool/mp.c:181
>   msgid ""
>   "*** SIGN NOT 0, +1 OR -1 IN MPADD2 CALL.\n"
>   "POSSIBLE OVERWRITING PROBLEM ***\n"
>   msgstr ""
> 
>   #: gcalctool/mp.c:457
>   msgid "*** N .LE. 1 IN CALL TO MPART1 ***\n"
>   msgstr ""
> 
>   #: gcalctool/mp.c:564
>   msgid "*** ABS(X) .GT. 1 IN CALL TO MPASIN ***\n"
>   msgstr ""
> 
> It looks like old Fortran error messages to me, and not really suited
> for user messages. I'm definitely going to skip them for now, but if
> noone has contacted the maintainer, I will file a bug so they can be
> fixed in the future.

Yes, please do file bug reports.

You're correct that the gcalctool source code is very old in certain
places, it's based on thirteen year old software...(*)
For most things that's actually considered a feature of gcalctool, since
its mathematic algorithms have had much testing, but of course the
interface and messages need some polishing. The author has also been
very responsive to such requests, in my experience(**).

Christian


(*)
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-August/msg00038.html
(**)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gcalctool&keywords=string