From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swedebugia@riseup.net Subject: Colors and progress indicators on buildprocesses Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:38:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87d5b525ac5a11f0152902458a35120a@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57866) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpBJg-0005hH-4D for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 05:38:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpBJb-0003jS-4o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 05:38:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.riseup.net ([198.252.153.129]:56086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpBJa-0003j2-SI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 05:38:11 -0400 Received: from cotinga.riseup.net (unknown [10.0.1.164]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 311B61A1B2B for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:38:10 +0000 (UTC) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel Hi I recently installed Parabola and have played around a bit with compiling AUR-packages to be able to run the programs I want - packaged or not. Having build a lot on guixsd a while ago I noticed some differences in the cli-overview that I would like to present. Colorfication and arrows (=>) are used to clearly distinguish pacaur/pacman-commands from the buildprocess output. A nice thing I saw on some builds (build of qt during build of telegram-desktop) was a per build process percentage indicator located in the beginning of each line of build output like this: [ 0% ] lorem ipsum.... [ 10% ] lorem ipsum.... In addition to these two above I have an idea as well: Use the terminal-title wisely to show the progress of the whole transaction and the current running build (e.g.: "Download complete. Buildprogress 4/5: building qt" What do you think?