[Dancer-users] User-friendly errors on YAML parsing failures (was: Re: dancer croaking with a strange error in config.yml)

[sawyer x]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:42 AM, damien krotkine <dkrotkine at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> try to parse the config file. If it fails, try to parse the error
> message sent by YAML, and extract the line / column from the message.
> It's usually reported accurately. Then 2 cases : if Carp::Verbose is
> false (general case), perform a croak (not a confess), with a human
> message saying " failed to parse config file '$filename', at line 42,
> column 12. Take extra care to spaces and tabs, blabla".
> If Carp::Verbose is true, then do a confess instead, appending the
> full YAML message.
>

Disagree. We shouldn't be trying to parse error messages of other modules.
You cannot be sure it will be consistent between versions or between
engines or between modules.

We should be outputting a "Reading your configuration file failed. This was
the error message: $msg\n"
Something like that, no more.
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