Re: Idea: "guix log"

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi!

ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> skribis:

> Next tool, next idea (the guix log family): A log viewer. Gentoo
> has more than one. The way we currently save logs could be more
> human friendly. It doesn't need a restructuring of the folders
> (yes I know about the switch for logfiles) but we could have
> something similar to https://github.com/gentoo/elogv which
> provides an easy way to read thelogs (nothing more). In addition
> to that, our log reader could extract the log and save it if
> requested to do so.

‘guix-build-log-mode’ in Emacs does that and it’s awesome.  We could
have a log colorizing & navigation tool outside of Emacs, though that’s
probably quite a bit of work.

> Furthermore, a log parser which can tell you how long a build
> took, on average/every time. This is similar to
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Genlop
> (https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-portage/genlop/genlop-0.30.10-r1.ebuild).
> You don't want to query hydra via emacs or your webbrowser every
> time (at least I don't do this), so a small programm to read out
> the start and finish time of a log would be great.

We could provide a bunch of procedures to extract this info from build
logs.

My 2¢,
Ludo’.