Friendlier output to the user?

[andrewcooke]

Sorry if this exists and I am simply overlooking it, but it seems like some feedback about why BinDeps decides to do whatever BinDeps does could be useful.

For example, if it could say something like:

WARNING: Could not find libraries X, Y so building complete package from source

that would be really helpful, because people could maybe then install X and Y from their package manager and avoid all the tedious messing around with actually compiling things.

(Based on my experience described at http://acooke.org/cute/JuliasBinD0.html)

[tkelman]

Try BinDeps.debug. We could add a few more info outputs in various places.

[andrewcooke]

Try it how? Are there any instructions?

[andrewcooke]

using BinDeps
BinDeps.debug("Package")