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Subject: Re: [boost] A demonstration of why horrendous error messages can destroy usability
From: Gregory Crosswhite (gcrosswhite_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-11 09:51:56


On Dec 12, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:

> On 12/11/2011 02:29 PM, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, it refuses to build. Why is that? For reasons that apparently took an overwhelming *56 kilobytes of error message* to explain. (See attached, if you dare. )
>
> I'd quite like to see the attached "horrendous" error message, but you didn't attach anything.

Hmm, I actually did (I just checked my sent box to confirm this), but somehow it got dropped. I'll try attaching it a text file at the end rather than a ZIP file this time.

Cheers,
Greg


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