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patch-hub is a TUI that streamlines the interaction of Linux developers with patches archived on lore.kernel.org
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Log missing external dependencies #48

Open OJarrisonn opened 1 month ago

OJarrisonn commented 1 month ago

Description:

Some external dependencies like b4 or delta (coming soon) might be missing. Sometimes those dependencies are mandatory and currently patch-hub doesn't quite inform properly this to the user on the runtime.

Motivation:

Always logging important errors in a readable way improves a lot the program from the user-friendly perspective

davidbtadokoro commented 2 weeks ago

True! Especially b4, which is a hard dependency and causes ugly crashes if we don't have it. Currently, most (if not all) first users will face this problem, and the error message won't even indicate the real cause of the error. Thanks for documenting this :pray:

CanNuhlar commented 1 week ago

A real world example of what @davidbtadokoro said.

Error:
   0: No such file or directory (os error 2)

Location:
   src/app.rs:129

Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.

I thought it's crashing but turns out b4 was missing and I'm a first time user

davidbtadokoro commented 6 days ago

A real world example of what @davidbtadokoro said.

Error:
   0: No such file or directory (os error 2)

Location:
   src/app.rs:129

Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.

I thought it's crashing but turns out b4 was missing and I'm a first time user

Hey @CanNuhlar, and thank you for the report! Also, thank you for giving patch-hub a try :smile:

Going to work on this ASAP, as this is an ugly crash indeed...