[erlang-patches] Improve Dialyzer scan error messages

[Kostis Sagonas]

On 03/26/2013 01:58 PM, Magnus Henoch wrote:
> Here is a patch that improves the output from Dialyzer when it fails to
> scan a file.  In my experience this usually happens because of a missing
> parse transform, but the same applies to Erlang files with syntax
> errors.
>
> This is the output from running "dialyzer --src" on an empty file
> without this patch:
>
> dialyzer: Analysis failed with error:
> Could not scan the following file(s): [{"/tmp/foo.erl",
>                                          ["/tmp/foo.erl:1: no module definition\n"]}]
>
> And with the patch:
>
> dialyzer: Analysis failed with error:
> Could not scan the following file(s):
> /tmp/foo.erl:1: no module definition

Some comments:

A more convincing example, perhaps with more than one "failing" file, 
would help (me at least) appreciate the great improvement that this 
patch provides.  Also, one should check how this change affects the 
Erlang interface of dialyzer (that of dialyzer:run).  Finally, I am not 
sure I like the extra new line, but that's perhaps a minor point.

Kostis