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Special error for missing command

Open redyetidev opened this issue 8 months ago • 0 comments

When a dependency requires git, but git cannot be found, npm currently logs the missing file path with a standard file not found error. This behavior has led to confusion among some users, resulting in issues being reported against nodejs/node and nodejs/help.

I suggest enhancing the error messaging to provide clearer guidance. Specifically, when npm attempts to execute a command and the corresponding file cannot be found, the error message should IMO explicitly state this. The enhanced message could look something like this:

The '[command]' command could not be found at '[file path]'. Please ensure that '[command]' is installed at the specified path and is executable by the current user.

redyetidev avatar Jun 25 '24 16:06 redyetidev