[Freeassociation-devel] libical tolerating bad input

[IGnatius T Foobar]

 >So before I write a patch to libical to make it tolerant of this junk, 
does    
 >fault-tolerance fit the project's goals?  Does the libical design 
support    
 >failing gracefully in the face of bad input?     
   
 Absolutely, it makes sense to return either an error code or empty values 
to the application if bad input is presented to the library.  Cleaning it 
up would be even better, but at the very least, let's not crash the 
application.  libical is now used in a lot of important applications and 
we don't want to be the cause of them crashing.  
   
  -- Art