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Misleading error when an old version of a package is installed #147

Open sporto opened 7 years ago

sporto commented 7 years ago

If I have a project which has an older version of a package elm make will fail giving an error related to wrong usage e.g.

elm-package say that packageX should be 2.1, but version 2.0 is installed in my system. This happens because someone else updated packageX in elm-package. Then when running elm-make I see:

Cannot find variable `PackageX.foo`.

68|     PackageX.foo

`PackageX` does not expose `foo`.

Where foo was introduced in 2.1 of that package.

So I think that there is some problem with our app. But the real problem is that I haven't installed the updated package.

It would be great if elm make could give me an error like: "elm-package requires packageX 2.1, you have installed 2.0`

process-bot commented 7 years ago

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