Re: [pdf-devel] Unneeded macros in the public header

[gerel]

 > From: Aleksander Morgado <address@hidden>
 > Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:17:56 +0100
 > 
 > Sorry for the long email :-)
 > 
 > >    Is there any good reason to generate the PDF_DEBUG_* and PDF_ASSERT_*
 > >    macros in the public pdf.h header?
 > > 
 > > Yes.  Currently these macros are available to the library user and are
 > > documented in the reference manual.  The rationale is to ease the
 > > debugging of problems while using the library.
 > > 
 > 
 > Humm.. Not really sure if that's so useful. Whenever the library is
 > distributed out there, it won't be compiled with the configure options
 > which enable those macros, so PDF_DEBUG_* macros for example will do
 > nothing. We don't even use them in our unit tests, I believe.
 > 

Hi Aleks,

BTW, shouldn't we get used to write code with PDF_DEBUG ? The day we
start with beta testing, we're gonna be writing tons of them to find a bug. We
could start now instead. :-)

cheers,

-gerel