From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: swedebugia@riseup.net
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Colors and progress indicators on buildprocesses
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:41:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pong9t53.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d5b525ac5a11f0152902458a35120a@riseup.net
Hi!
swedebugia@riseup.net skribis:
> 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?
I think these are all good ideas. Especially colors, which could help a
lot (for non-Emacs terminals at least), and provide a more pleasant
experience.
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-04 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 9:38 Colors and progress indicators on buildprocesses swedebugia
2016-09-28 9:57 ` ng0
2016-09-28 13:55 ` swedebugia
2016-09-28 14:05 ` John Darrington
2016-09-28 14:39 ` Troy Sankey
2016-09-30 20:41 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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