Re: Patch: small reduction in output from make doc

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
>> Lilypond is commonly is called from a Makefile and other utilities,
>> obliterating all useful output from them.
>>
>> The normal behavior for a Unix utility is to write to stderr when
>> something goes wrong and then bottom out with a non-zero exit status.
>> Make (or similar tools) stop, and the output on the screen is relevant
>> to what command was called last, what went wrong, and where the process
>> stopped.
>>
>> That's relevant.  Highly so.
>
> I would agree that progress messages should go to stdout, and error
> messages to stderr so that "normal" progress could be distinguished
> from "important" error.

The number of things about which people fancy themselves to be in
agreement with me never ceases to amaze me.  In particular in this
thread.

If my communication skills are that abysmal, I should probably just shut
up.

-- 
David Kastrup