Re: Lilypond error behaviour

[David Kastrup]

Sharon Rosner <address@hidden> writes:

>> Now it appears that there are people who want to change that
>> because they want to add some sort of post-processing by machine
>> (embedding LP in Makefiles, or into a server), or even just the
>> imposition of some tidier design principle that has nothing
>> to do with printing music.
>
> Lilypond's handling of errors is fine. It's just the reporting of errors
> that's not.
>
>> I think I'll risk making you uncomfortable in order to argue 
>> against arbitrary non-generation (or deletion) of PDF output. 
>> Sorry.
>
> Again, it's rather the exit code, not the presence or absence of
> PDF's.

What's wrong with the exit code?  I thought people rather complained
about the error message.

-- 
David Kastrup