no error thrown on inexistent version but block normal usage of elm make

[Grummfy]

Hello,
I see a package and try to install it through some change in elm-package.json but I add a version that doesn't exist.

So because of no error are displayed when you make a "elm make" or "elm package install", I just got error on elm make but like if the elm-stuff directory was corrupted. It take me a long time to understand it.

So I propose when a version doesn't exist, the issue should be a clear message and not something that create confusion.

[process-bot]

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[jerith666]

I just hit this as well. A bit more detail:

I had "rtfeldman/elm-css": "13.0.1 <= v < 14.0.0" in my elm-package.json. I wanted to update to 14.x, so I did:

$ elm-package install rtfeldman/elm-css
Error: This change is too tricky for me. Your elm-package.json already lists the
following dependency:

    "rtfeldman/elm-css": "13.0.1 <= v < 14.0.0"

So I am not sure how to make that include version 14.0.0 as well. Maybe you want
one of the following constraints?

    13.0.1 <= v < 14.0.0
    14.0.0 <= v < 15.0.0

Modify elm-package.json by hand to be exactly what you want.

Not paying close attention -- in particular, not noticing that my lower bound was at 13.0.1 instead of 13.0.0 -- I just went in and changed the 13 to a 14 (as in jerith666/elbum@7b8e325). This left elm-package.json referring to a non-existent version of elm-css, 14.0.1. Then elm-make wouldn't work, it got into an infinite loop of telling me to delete elm-stuff:

$ elm-make --output elbum.js Main.elm 
Packages configured successfully!
Could not find package elm-lang/dom.

Maybe your elm-stuff/ directory has been corrupted? You can usually fix stuff
like this by deleting elm-stuff/ and rebuilding your project.

$ rm -rf elm-stuff

$ elm-make --output elbum.js Main.elm 
Packages configured successfully!
Could not find package elm-lang/dom.

Maybe your elm-stuff/ directory has been corrupted? You can usually fix stuff
like this by deleting elm-stuff/ and rebuilding your project.

$ ls -lR elm-stuff
elm-stuff:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 matt users    2 May  6 21:43 exact-dependencies.json
drwxr-xr-x 2 matt users 4096 May  6 21:43 packages

elm-stuff/packages:
total 0

$ cat elm-stuff/exact-dependencies.json 
{}

The above was with:

$ elm-make --version
Invalid option `--version'

elm-make 0.18 (Elm Platform 0.18.0)