Re: Colors and progress indicators on buildprocesses

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

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’.