From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to test for native JSON support?
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 15:16:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838s4u66f0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2cuybeu.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (message from Tim Landscheidt on Tue, 04 May 2021 11:40:41 +0000)
> From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
> Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 11:40:41 +0000
>
> 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.
It actually displays an error message, in addition to returning nil
(as do all other JSON primitives in that case).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-04 12:16 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
2021-05-04 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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