[Patch] Let birdc output errors to stderr

[Christian Tacke]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:01:01 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
[...]
> > 1. Is this useful? Hopefully.
> >    If you think this is a studpid idea, pleas explain!
> 
> I am not sure if stderr should be used even in interactive mode, but that
> is hopefully harmless.

We could add some "!interactive && " to the conditionals,
if absolutely needed.  But IMHO interactive tools are also
allowed to use stderr.


> > 2. Should this be the default (in an upcoming version)?
> >    I don't know, how many non humans depend on *all* output
> >    going to stdout and neglect stderr?
> 
> Probably in the next major version.

That means 1.6?

Will you keep the patch in your "for 1.6" queue?



> > 3. If the answer to (2) is "Need backward compatibility":
> >    Do we need some --enable-stderr then?
> 
> That seems unnecessary.

Good. Overloading options isn't really a good thing. So
good!


Cheers

Christian


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