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=== Status === 

* Author: Victor Poughon
* Additional Contributors (if different than authors): Manuel Grizonnet
* Submitted on 12.06.2017
* Proposed target release: 6.2
* Adopted / Rejected (with vote results)
* Link to a public git branch: https://git.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb.git/shortlog/refs/heads/better_error_messages
* Merged : (put merge commit when merged)

=== Summary ===

This RFC improves error messages displayed in otbcli, otbgui and Python bindings. It also improves consistency in the various error handling methods inside OTB and its applications (prefer exceptions), and adds an [[Better_Error_Messages | extensive test suite]] for many error paths.