Quick question: how would the errors in mix deps.compile be used in the editor? How could that be useful?
Also note that we won't be able to do this for all dependencies... so for dependencies the best choice may be to capture stderr. On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 3:16 PM Guilherme Duarte <gjsdua...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > *Proposal:* > > In order to facilitate the implementation of development tooling, such as > *elixir-ls*, I propose the propagation of the *--return-errors *flag from > Mix.Tasks.Compile to Mix.Tasks.Deps.Compile. > > With this, it would be possible to report diagnostic errors during > dependency compilation. > With the current behavior, the *mix compile --return-errors *task does an > early exit when dependency compilation fails, making it extremely hard to > report error reasons. > > This behavior change would be especially helpful when path dependencies > exist. > > *Proposed Implementation:* > > In order to achieve this, the flag should be passed down from > Mix.Tasks.Compile -> Mix.Tasks.Loadpaths -> Mix.Tasks.Deps.Loadpaths -> > Mix.Tasks.Deps.Compile. > Mix.Tasks.Deps.Compile.compile should then accumulate the diagnostics > messages returned by Mix.Tasks.Compile for each compiled dependency, and > the returned values propagated back up call tree to be reported by the > original task invocation (mix compile --return-errors) > > Thanks for considering this! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/03daf960-dc81-4d76-b9b5-015d2e47e72bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/03daf960-dc81-4d76-b9b5-015d2e47e72bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4K4JEi3e8A04_cE%3Dw3C4cJTKKyDSP3ryF5Zit5Ma_VVag%40mail.gmail.com.
