From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.windriver.com (mail1.windriver.com [147.11.146.13]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96626013D for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail1.windriver.com (8.14.9/8.14.5) with ESMTP id t2DJfcuC029043 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.224.146.229] (128.224.146.229) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.40) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.224.2; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:41:38 -0700 Message-ID: <55033D71.5070200@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:41:37 -0400 From: "Woolley, Rob" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <1425047544-4820-1-git-send-email-rob.woolley@windriver.com> <5501AFD7.40906@windriver.com> <1426177814.9114.119.camel@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1426177814.9114.119.camel@linuxfoundation.org> X-Originating-IP: [128.224.146.229] Cc: tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com, bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] knotty: Add automatic pager support X-BeenThere: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussion that advance bitbake development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:41:51 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/12/2015 12:30 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 11:25 -0400, Rob Woolley wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just wanted to send out a ping to see if this enhancement is desired. >> >> It scratches an itch for me, but not sure how others feel about it. >> >> If there are any changes I can make or extra tests I can run, please let >> me know. > Patches 1/2 look good, I've run into the EPIPE issue myself and I have > noticed the crazy logfile so those can likely be merged. > > I'm less sure about 3, letting the user pipe the output to less when > needed would seem to be the better way to have this rather than adding > in specific pagination support? > > Cheers, > > Richard Sounds cool. The exception was bugging me, so I'm glad to hear those ones look good. As far as the 3rd patch is concerned: I remember when I first used bitbake, I was surprised by the flood of data coming from those options. I would suggest that doing the automatic paging provides a better first impression and saves unnecessary typing. I noticed that lib/image/help.py and lib/bsp/help.py have auto-paging for the help command. I've CC'd Tom Zanussi for his opinion. Regards, Rob