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   Message 28,705 of 30,566   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Paul   
   Re: Updating XnView MP   
   09 Jul 25 04:18:26   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 22:38:33 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > I could tell you about one project I attempted to build.   
   > It was a project that used some NVidia SDK libraries for the build. The   
   > build got half way along, and an error message said "Version mismatch".   
   > That's it. That's the context.   
   > You don't report "Version Mismatch, executable ABC wants version 10 of   
   > SDK, SDK provided is version 9". No contextual helpful hint at all, as   
   > to what the things are where the versions don't match.   
      
   All you had to do was look at the source of the build script. These things   
   are usually easy to modify, e.g. to add more debug messages. Or maybe   
   there was already an option to produce more verbose messaging -- this   
   would have been apparent from looking at the build script.   
      
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