[MPlayer-dev-eng] mms:// saying "Core dumped ;)"

[Diego Biurrun]

The Wanderer writes:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:40:11PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > 
> >> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > 
> > it's not that confusing... mplayer has many much more serious cases
> > of "pointless message that looks like an error" to confuse users,
> > which should be fixed, but this is not one of them..
> 
> You think it isn't, I (and apparently many users less elite than either
> of us) think it is. The only other "looks like an error but isn't"
> messages I can think of offhand are the "codecs.conf not found" and
> "missing font" messages, both of which are less problematic because they
> a) appear in a flood of other, more-useful information, and b) are most
> often followed immediately by an automatic demonstration that the thing
> works anyway.
> 
> The point is: this is obvious and funny when you know about it and know
> what it means, but is confusing, misleading and obfuscatory when you
> don't. Since some/many/most of the people who use the program don't (as
> evidenced by the number of 'bug reports' about the message), I think the
> humor is not a good enough reason to keep it.
> 
> I have no problem with - and even greatly enjoy - pointless humor in
> random places in programs. What I object to is when such humor gets in
> the way of functionality - and for at the very least a significant
> minority of users, this message apparently does exactly that. Like
> anything else which obstructs functionality and can be removed at no
> practical cost, I would say that it almost certainly should.

Well spoken.

I'd say send in a patch, I would be inclined to commit it.

Diego