Re: invalid printinfo data, NetBSD

[Fred Kiefer]

On 03.01.2012 08:57, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> > > My only nitpick now remains that perhaps we should return "nil" as
> > > printInfo if the PPD information is invalid, and not some partial
> > > object.
> >
> > The only thing we could do here is to raise an exception, if the files
> > could not be read. Probably this is better than working with an
> > invalid object.
> An invalid object is perhaps the worst thing indeed.. An exception, a
> nil object are more user and programmer friendly.
> In this case, GNUstep is looking up one of its own configuration files,
> if it fails, clearly some misconfiguration or internal bug happened
> (like in my case the domain local / sytem got mixed up somehow)

Done, I changed the code to raise an exception when the read in PPD file 
is nil.

> > > Some useful NSlog would helped me hours of debugging :)
> >
> > Did you try to use --GNU-Debug=GSPrinting
> Actually no, I don't even know all these debug options, a Wiki page
> would be nice!

Not a Wiki page, but maybe this will do:

http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/ProgrammingManual/manual_6.html#NSDebugLog_002c-NSWarnLog