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From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to test for native JSON support?
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 11:40:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2cuybeu.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b3a87ef0-6ee2-d8af-a9af-ddd6b0dbbba7@gmail.com

Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com> wrote:

> json-serialize would return nil if libjansson library is not
> available during the execution time. So the scenario would
> be someone building Emacs with json support, then forgetting
> to put libjansson on his path and/or moving the binary to
> another machine. Not very likely to happen on any POSIX
> systems, but a more or less tangible case on Windows.

That's a rather unexpected, at least undocumented failure
mode (vulgo: a bug).  IMNSHO in that case json-serialize
should either "work" or throw an error.

Tim




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-04 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-02 12:09 How to test for native JSON support? Joost Kremers
2021-05-03  0:20 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-05-03  8:21   ` Joost Kremers
2021-05-03 14:38     ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-05-03 18:59       ` Joost Kremers
2021-05-03 19:42   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-03 22:33     ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-05-03 22:39       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-04 11:40       ` Tim Landscheidt [this message]
2021-05-04 12:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-04 12:29           ` Joost Kremers
2021-05-04 12:50             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-04 13:06               ` Joost Kremers
2021-05-04 13:17               ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-04 14:01                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-04 14:30                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-04 14:32                     ` Philipp Stephani
2021-05-04 14:41                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-04 15:16                     ` Eli Zaretskii

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