[Hackage] #510: Don't call exitWithFailure on parse error, instead return error or throw exception

27 Feb 2009


      #510: Don't call exitWithFailure on parse error, instead return error or throw
exception
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  Reporter:  guest          |        Owner:         
      Type:  enhancement    |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.6.0.1
  Severity:  minor          |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown        |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                 |  
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 Please consider modifying ''readPackageDescription'' so that it doesn't
 end up calling ''dieWithLocation''.  It seems the decision of what to do
 when a parse error occurs is better made in the application rather than
 the library.

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Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/510
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