propsys: mention that the functions are stubs

Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr
Tue Jun 15 17:30:05 CDT 2010


On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, James Mckenzie wrote:
[...]
> >I'd say we need turn those into traces and add fixmes for the
> >unimplemented parts, if needed.
> >
> This actually might be better, but don't TRACES only appear if you are 
> running in debug mode?  We do want to inform our user base that a 
> failure happened due to partially implemented code rather than give 
> them the impression that we don't care or only implement code to make 
> certain programs work (hacky code...)

Calling a pseudo stub may *or may not* result in an application failure. 
Usually they are added precisely because they avoid an application 
failure.

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