Re: [AD] install_allegro aborting on failure

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:55:22PM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> >From the docs for install_allegro:
>    If no system driver can be used, the program will abort.
> 
> Can we please change this in 4.2?  It stops people from falling back
> on something else in case Allegro cannot be initialised, or even
> reporting an appropriate (less cryptic) error message.

I wasn't even aware of this `feature'. install_allegro() returns an error
code, right? Then having it abort the program on error counts as a bug
IMHO and should be fixed.

Evert



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