Author: coke
Date: Tue Apr 1 07:53:28 2008
New Revision: 26690
Modified:
branches/type_ids/parrotbug
Log:
[tools]
parrotbug requires a configure'd parrot to work. Be more gentle when
informing the users about it.
Modified: branches/type_ids/parrotbug
==============================================================================
--- branches/type_ids/parrotbug (original)
+++ branches/type_ids/parrotbug Tue Apr 1 07:53:28 2008
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
- or reporting bugs in some library bindings for parrot,
- or simply verifying that parrot works.
-It is *ONLY* a mean of reporting verifiable problems with the core
+It is *ONLY* a means of reporting verifiable problems with the core
parrot distribution, and any solutions to such problems, to parrot
developers.
@@ -136,7 +136,10 @@
# Get parrot configuration, stored in $parrot/myconfig
$filename = File::Spec->catfile($parrotdir, "myconfig");
- open(MYCONFIG, "<$filename") or die "Cannot open '$filename': $!";
+ open(MYCONFIG, "<$filename") or die <<'END_HELP';
+Please configure parrot before using parrotbug. See the README.
+If you cannot configure parrot, see docs/submissions.pod.
+END_HELP
{
local $/;
$parrot{myconfig} = <MYCONFIG>;
