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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium
New issue 3187 by [email protected]: check_install function
does not tell what is wrong
http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/issues/detail?id=3187
What version are you running?
RBTools 0.5.3
What's the URL of the page containing the problem?
N/A
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Have p4 client outside system $PATH
2. Run post-review with valid changelist from Eclipse IDE
3. Scratch an itch wondering why Perforce repo is not recognised as valid
one
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
An error message telling that post-review was not able to execute p4
command, because it's not in a (system) $PATH location.
What operating system are you using? What browser?
MacOS X 10.7
Please provide any additional information below.
It was quite a bummer, because I've got p4 in my $PATH set
in .bash_profile, but not in system-wide $PATH. As a result all commands
executed from terminal worked, but post-review fired from Eclipse (using
p4reviewboard plugin) failed without any useful error. The error message
I've got was "No supported repository could be accessed at the supplied
url." or "The current directory does not contain a checkout from a
supported source code repository." which confused me even further.
I know, my bad installing p4 wrong, but it took me several hours of
debugging and hacking Python code to find out what is actually wrong. A
simple error message that "p4 help" command was not executed would be
useful. On the other hand testing whether particular VCS is available by
executing it's commands feels hacky.
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