On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 13:23:03 +0700 Tom Hale <tom@hale.ee> wrote:
I noticed that even when namcap prints out errors, it still exits 0.
I raised this at: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60333
It was closed:
Reason for closing: Not a bug Additional comments about closing: namcap runs fine, so exiting with an error makes no sense
To me the "reason for closing" is like saying that diff should exit 0 when two files are different because diff ran fine.
If namcap is to be used in any automated packaging tools (or even my dodgy script), then it makes sense to have meaningful exit codes. And possibly an option to also have warnings also exit non-0 for the persnickety amongst us.
I note that the python source returns 0 and 2, but never 1.
I'm a newbie here, but I believe my argument has merit, so I raise it here for possible discussion.
namcap's output is informational, nothing more. Taking it as gospel or using it as any kind of automated checking instead of actually reading the output is not sane.