[Rock-dev] API change in iodrivers_base CORRECTION

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On 09/06/2011 05:47 PM, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> 1. iodrivers_base changed quite a bit lately. Until now, I tried to
>      keep these changes backward compatible (you just get a lot of
>      warnings). I just pushed backward-incompatible changes:
>
>         the open* methods now return void and throw on error
>
>      The reason for that is that most people that started to write
>      drivers did not actually *check* for the return value. Since
>      throwing is anyway the general guideline, I changed it to throw.

This one was really stupid from my side

Error handling *is* now done through exceptions, but the boolean return 
value is kept so that code still compiles

Realize, however, that if you expect your own API to return false (i.e. 
don't want to use exceptions), this *does* change the behaviour.
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