[Gammaray-interest] Misleading error diagnostics

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 6 September 2017 at 19:41, Kevin Funk <kevin.funk at kdab.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 September 2017 04:44:29 CEST Christian Gagneraud wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> When you try to run an executable that doesn't exists, gammaray is
>> misleading in it's diagnostics:
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> No probe ABI specified and ABI auto-detection failed, picking
>> qt5_6-MSVC-i686 at random.
>> To specify the probe ABI explicitly use --probe <abi>, available
>> probes are listed using the --list-probes option.
>> Failed to launch target 'Debug/MFDApp.exe'.
>> See <https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay/wiki/Known-Issues> for troubleshooting
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> Wouldn't be better if the diagnostics were:
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> Failed to launch target 'Debug/MFDApp.exe': File not found.
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> Should I create an issue on github?
>
> Please do so, yes.

https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay/issues/433


>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
>> Chris
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