[Gambas-user] Gambas error messages

[jm]

So when I typed gambas2 and it didn't work,
I typed gambas2 --help.

Naturally that won't work because it a sym link.

But nearly all other Linux commands do something
when you type --help.

e.g
firefox --help
konqueror --help
ssh --help
ls --help

Anyway I then tried gbr2 --help after realizing what was
happening.

That also does not work because gambas
doesn't have any normal Linux command line
friendly options.

As gambas gets ported to more and more ARM and future
distros, there will be more and more problems like this.

If gambas had --help, and also something like a -v n
for verbosity level n in command line, then it will
be easier to debug in environments where the IDE
has not started up yet.
If the verbose messages are cleverly worded in unique ways, then
when they get pasted into forums, they start
seeding google with messages that can be searched for
and the fixes become more easy to find. And duplication of effort
will also reduce.



On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 23:23 +0300, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> So, gambas2 is not packed correctly in Ubuntu repository.
> But in fact with my system launching gambas2 gives error message of missing
> qt library (when I uninstall the libs)... so I think there is yet something
> else wrong with your system.
> 
> But check that anyway.
> 
> Jussi
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Jussi Lahtinen
> <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>wrote:
> 
> >
> > Thats why I was originally posting to ask if more could be
> >> done for the command line options to output more verbose
> >> messages for the rainy day when things go wrong
> >> so that we may debug in silence.
> >>
> >
> > I don't know what kind of messages you expect to get...
> > We already got this "ERROR: #49: Not a directory:
> > /usr/bin/gambas2/.project".
> > So I tried to recompile gambas2 (since there was error in it), and it
> > turns out that libqt (version 3) is missing... damn.
> > I installed libqt3-mt and it's dev, recompiled gbx2, gbc2 and recompiled
> > gambas2.
> > Now everything works. So I expect you have same problem.
> >
> > I personally use only Gambas 3 these days...
> >
> > Jussi
> >
> >
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