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json-serialize should signal error when dll is not found [MS Windows]

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Message #32 received at 48228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 48228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48228: json-serialize should signal error when dll is not
 found [MS Windows]
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 20:42:18 +0300

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 48228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 19:59:15 +0300
> 
> On 04.05.2021 19:43, Robert Pluim wrote:
> > What makes it error-prone? Those existing testing functions (on
> > Windows) attempt to load the relevant DLL's using the exact same
> > mechanisms as the actual code, so the failure (and success) modes are
> > identical.
> 
> When somebody write code using json-serialize, and it can't do what it 
> was asked to do, it should raise an error.
> 
> I have code like this in a separate project:
> 
>    (cond ((fboundp 'json-parse-buffer)
>           (json-parse-buffer
>            :array-type 'list
>            :object-type 'alist
>            :null-object nil))
>          (t
>           (let ((json-array-type 'list))
>             (json-read))))
> 
> It has been there for a couple of years. And only now I find out that it 
> can fail on MS Windows, because that failure is not reproducible on any 
> other platform.

How is that different from similar code that relies on, say, librsvg
to display SVG images?

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