[mary-dev] Error Handling in MARY TTS: Start of new guidelines for writing code in MARY TTS

[Marc Schroeder]

Code quality is an important goal, and MARY TTS sometimes falls short of 
it. The MARY TTS core team is now (ten years late, I know...) defining 
guidelines for how to write code in MARY TTS.

Introducing these new principles is a process; we start with a central 
issue, Error Handling. Please have a look at the following set of slides:

http://mary.opendfki.de/repos/trunk/doc/ErrorHandling.pdf

I am sure the ideas in these slides are not the perfect "right thing" to 
do; but they seem like a good step in the right direction.

All *new code* submitted to the MARY TTS repository, in the trunk and in 
all branches, should please observe the new guidelines. Old code will be 
updated as time permits.


If there are concerns, comments or questions about these guidelines, 
feel free to discuss on this list.

Best regards,
Marc


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