RE: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 3/3] knotty.py: Separate the display of main tasks from running tasks

[Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: den 7 mars 2022 16:46
> To: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>; bitbake-
> devel@lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 3/3] knotty.py: Separate the display
> of main tasks from running tasks
> 
> On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 14:36 +0100, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > From: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
> >
> > It can be confusing that the count of running tasks shown together with
> > the progress bar for the main tasks also includes any running setscene
> > tasks.
> >
> > Separate the display so that the message for the main tasks' progress
> > bar only includes information on the main tasks, and the display of the
> > count of currently running tasks gets it own line.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
> > ---
> >
> > This should be considered an RFC. With this change, the progress lines
> > for the setscene tasks and the main tasks (is that a good name for
> > those tasks?) look the same. The drawback is that it adds a line to
> > the display.
> 
> I'm not keen. The progress bar only relates to "real" tasks, not setscene
> ones. I know some of the running tasks might be setscene ones but that was 
> a compromise in the previous patches to keep the number of lines minimal. 
> I wasn't convinced that issue mattered that much in reality.

As I said, this was just an RFC. I can live without it.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

//Peter