not sure about this panic

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/errors.go b/errors.go
index 7f318af..154f3af 100644
--- a/errors.go
+++ b/errors.go
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import (
 
 var NotInitialized error = errors.New("your application config not initialized")
 
+var VersionMismatch error = errors.New("your PB version does not match")
+
 // Finally, declare a package-level variable of your new type.
 // This is the "sentinel" error that users will compare against.
 var ErrNotInitialized = NotInitializedError{}
diff --git a/load.go b/load.go
index 2434f9e..c9fef7d 100644
--- a/load.go
+++ b/load.go
@@ -116,11 +116,17 @@ func LoadPB(pb proto.Message) error {
 	}
 	newver, _ := GetString(pb, "version")
 	if ver != newver {
+		fmt.Println("")
 		fmt.Printf("VERSION '%s' != '%s'\n", ver, newver)
+		fmt.Println("")
 		fmt.Println("Your protobuf file is old and can not be loaded")
+		fmt.Println("your application must decide how to handle this (delete or fix)")
+		fmt.Println("always panic here. application is broken")
 		fmt.Println("You must delete or convert the file", fullname)
-		// probably should ALWAYS PANIC HERE
-		panic("protobuf version mismatch")
+		fmt.Println("")
+		// probably should ALWAYS PANIC HERE // upon further study, always panic here is better than not
+		s := fmt.Sprintf("protobuf version wrong. delete or fix %s", fullname)
+		panic(s)
 	}
 	return nil
 }