On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 19:58 +0100, Jeremy Lainé wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > would be nice if the error message was slightly clearer, perhaps an > > check to see if dot is available and an alternate message of 'dot not > > available' or some such. > > I had a look and kprof's behaviour without graphviz is pretty bad, so > I'll make kprof Recommend graphviz instead of just Suggest. That seems fair as gprof is recommended. Is it worth adding vcg to the suggested list as well?
> I'd rather not hack around too much to implement checking for the > presence of dot, so I suggest a less intrusive fix which is changing the > error message to "dot could not display the data (1), is 'graphviz' > installed?". Fair. If you just decided to forward the request to the upstream developer's it would be fine by me. > If you're happy with these changes I'll go ahead and uploaded a fixed > version of kprof. Sure. Cheers, - Martin
