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igfoo opened this issue Aug 16, 2012 · 4 comments
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Cabal's bug text is a bit terse #1007

igfoo opened this issue Aug 16, 2012 · 4 comments
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igfoo commented Aug 16, 2012

When Cabal/cabal-install says something like

cabal: 'parseField' called on a non-field. Consider this a bug.

it's not immediately clear that it is a bug in Cabal, as opposed to a bug in the .cabal file.

Perhaps "Consider this a bug in Cabal." would be better, but better still would be instructions on how/where to report it too.
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tibbe commented Aug 16, 2012

I agree. Care to whip up a patch? Perhaps we could create a helper function we call in all such cases and that helper function would output bug-filing instructions.

@23Skidoo 23Skidoo reopened this Nov 18, 2012
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Reopening since I didn't add instructions on how to report the bug.

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Looking at the usage of bug, it looks like it's used to signal both bugs in Cabal and user errors; I decided to revert my fix for now.

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Make some error messages more user-friendly.
689178e 
Fixes #1304, #1007.
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23Skidoo commented May 2, 2013

Fixed in 689178e.

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