godoc: confusing error when searching for packages from the command line #1514
Description
Before filing a bug, please check whether it has been fixed since the latest release: run "hg pull -u" and retry what you did to reproduce the problem. Thanks. What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. on the command line type "godoc test" What is the expected output? An error message saying that no such package was found What do you see instead? An error message saying that no such command was found Which compiler are you using (5g, 6g, 8g, gccgo)? All Which operating system are you using? All Which revision are you using? (hg identify) f4bf4f146b1f+ tip Please provide any additional information below. When invoked from the command line, the godoc program will first search the package directories for the supplied argument. If a package was not found godoc will treat the user argument as a command instead of a package and search go/src/cmd. Unfortunately, if it doesn't find anything there either it will only report that it hasn't found the command, and will say nothing about the missing package error. This causes people new to the language to exclaim "but i was looking for a package?!" NB: I hesitate to submit the attached patch as a CL as I'm not sure it is good enough.
Attachments:
- godoc.patch (1232 bytes)