Some errors do not show the line where they happened

[manast]

Which makes quite difficult to correct them. Also, why displaying an ugly stack trace which provides no useful info to the end user?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.cli.main", line 31, in main
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.cli.docopt_command", line 21, in sys_dispatch
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.cli.command", line 27, in dispatch
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.cli.docopt_command", line 24, in dispatch
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.cli.command", line 57, in perform_command
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.cli.command", line 77, in get_project
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.project", line 69, in from_dicts
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.project", line 49, in sort_service_dicts
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.project", line 42, in visit
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.project", line 27, in get_service_dependents
  File "/compose/build/docker-compose/out00-PYZ.pyz/compose.project", line 21, in get_service_names
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'split'

[dnephin]

I think this is #129 , there's an error in your config related to links:

[dnephin]

Now that #129 is in, this should be fixed. You can try it out in the 1.5.0rc1 release