Re: Reporting module errors

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am 07.11.2017 um 23:47 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>>   /tmp/config.scm:6:0: module (gnu packages foobar) could not be found
>
> Since one of the aims of guix is to empower users, this is more cryptic.
> One needs to know that ":6:0" means "line 6". Thus such a terse message
> raises the bar.

Well, Guix has always reported source code location like this, and
besides Guix all GNU tools and many non-GNU tools do.  At some point we
have to agree on conventions…

Ludo’.