Bug 337586

Summary:	Cryptic error messages when opening a cmake based project while cmake is not installed
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Cyrille Berger <cberger>
Component:	Build tools: CMake	Assignee:	kdevelop-bugs-null
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kfunk, mail, mike.a.harris
Priority:	HI	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version First Reported In:	4.6.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Cyrille Berger 2014-07-18 17:34:28 UTC

Step to reproduce:
* make sure cmake is *not* installed
* open a cmake based project

Result:
* get two cryptic error dialog:
 - Could not load project management plugin KDevCMakeManager.
 - project importing plugin (KDevCMakeManager) does not support the IProjectFileManager interface.

Expected result:
* error dialog mentioning that cmake is not installed

Comment 1 Kevin Funk 2014-07-22 08:28:15 UTC

Yep. We've also seen reports from Ubuntu users, where CMake is not pulled in when installing KDevelop.

This is quite confusing and needs to be fixed. (It'd also make sense to ask the user for installing the cmake package via package manager if needed).

Comment 2 Mike Harris 2017-10-18 17:34:53 UTC

Hi I'd love to work on this bug is it still active?

Comment 3 Sven Brauch 2017-10-18 19:03:24 UTC

I thought I had reworded the message at some point, but just check if it still looks weird to you.