Re: verbosity

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote:

> You can get bit by having a compilation be too silent or by drowning 
> the compiling users with detail.

I don't recall ever being "bit" by being drowned in detail, but I have 
been "bit" many times by packages which only admit to compiling 
"foobar.cxx" or linking "foobar.lib" without providing any clue as to 
which parameters are being used so the problem can be corrected. 
Typically the authors of such packages have gone to far greater effort 
to produce the simple "compiling foobar.cxx ..." message than they 
have with assuring that their package compiles for anyone but 
themselves.  It is a case of focusing on the wrong things.

Bob
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