[consfigurator] user feedback when missing property definitions

Sean Whitton spwhitton at spwhitton.name
Mon Jul 25 02:00:08 BST 2022


Hello,

On Sun 24 Jul 2022 at 11:01pm +02, Russell Sim wrote:

> The mistake I made was that I never added the file I declared the
> defproplist to my system asd, it was in a new file, and i was just
> fiddling with the repl and didn't understand how the propspec would be
> propagated to the remote host, so didn't consider that I would need it
> to exist in a file referenced by the asd file to take effect.
>
> It's pretty obvious in retrospect, but this could be something that
> catches others when they first start using consfigurator.  Would it be
> possible to add a warning for this case? or possibly an error? I don't
> have any strong opinions, I have only just started playing around
> today.

Yeah, this catches me out from time to time too, a warning would be
worth adding.

-- 
Sean Whitton



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