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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:29:34PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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.

and i would be inclined to reverse it. :)
with the dreaded "cvs admin -o"!! :))

rich