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#32837
[PATCH 0/5] Improvements to the UI with colors
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Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:13:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #40 received at 32837-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Hello,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:
>> Let me know what you think! I’d be happy to go ahead with this variant
>> soon. :-)
>
> I really like this patch series. It implements a very flexible
> mechanism that allows us to track the build state more accurately. In
> fact, it would enable a GUI developer to display the build progress in
> an intuitive way that is a few steps removed from the raw build log
> style.
Yeah, that’s my hope too. We would need Fibers/coroutines to make a
neat (G)UI, and also better multiplexing of build logs when max-jobs > 1
(the “extended build traces” are not full proof: we can’t guarantee
they’ll appear at the beginning of a line currently), but it’s a first
step.
> I noticed a few typos in patch 4/5:
Fixed!
Thanks Danny for reviewing, and thank you Ricardo for reviewing,
testing, and for the suggestions, which led to a much improved patch!
> As to the way we display build progress: we can improve on that later.
> The mechanism proposed in this patch series is very nice and I’d love to
> see it merged soon.
I have a snippet here to estimate build time based on past build logs,
we’ll see…
I’ve pushed the patches as 240a9c69a6064544a616acc521c993542c364948,
with a daemon update in 5abcb1b0e6fe849d206b3683444c76d91f21a3d4.
Bug reports & suggestions welcome!
Ludo’.
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