[Buildroot] [RFC] progress indicator

[Buildroot] [RFC] progress indicator

[Yegor Yefremov]

What about making a progress indicator, so that user always knows how
many packages left to be built? Like Android (AOSP) does during repo
sync:

Fetching projects:  53% (127/238)  Receiving objects:  22% (290/1289), 195.95 Ki
Fetching projects:  54% (129/238)  Receiving objects:  28% (361/1289), 195.95 Ki
Fetching projects:  55% (131/238)  Receiving objects:  47% (606/1289), 643.81 Ki

Yegor

[Buildroot] [RFC] progress indicator

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On Thursday 09 February 2012 00:32:42 Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> What about making a progress indicator, so that user always knows how
> many packages left to be built? Like Android (AOSP) does during repo
> sync:
> 
> Fetching projects:  53% (127/238)  Receiving objects:  22% (290/1289), 195.95 Ki
> Fetching projects:  54% (129/238)  Receiving objects:  28% (361/1289), 195.95 Ki
> Fetching projects:  55% (131/238)  Receiving objects:  47% (606/1289), 643.81 Ki

 crosstool-NG does it as well.

 However, I don't see how you would do it without major surgery to the 
infrastructure.


 Regards,
 Arnout

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[Buildroot] [RFC] progress indicator

[Yegor Yefremov]

Am 10.02.2012 23:55, schrieb Arnout Vandecappelle:
> On Thursday 09 February 2012 00:32:42 Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>> What about making a progress indicator, so that user always knows how
>> many packages left to be built? Like Android (AOSP) does during repo
>> sync:
>>
>> Fetching projects:  53% (127/238)  Receiving objects:  22% (290/1289), 195.95 Ki
>> Fetching projects:  54% (129/238)  Receiving objects:  28% (361/1289), 195.95 Ki
>> Fetching projects:  55% (131/238)  Receiving objects:  47% (606/1289), 643.81 Ki
> 
>  crosstool-NG does it as well.
> 
>  However, I don't see how you would do it without major surgery to the 
> infrastructure.

I fear it is inevitable. But if someone has lots of free time, it would be a nice feature. Especially on slow machines it is very nice to know how long will take to build.

Yegor

[Buildroot] [RFC] progress indicator

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Yegor" == Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de> writes:

Hi,

 Yegor> I fear it is inevitable. But if someone has lots of free time,
 Yegor> it would be a nice feature. Especially on slow machines it is
 Yegor> very nice to know how long will take to build.

I don't have a problem with adding something like that if it isn't too
intrusive. We once had a RFC patch which changed the MESSAGE macro to
also output to the xterm title. I guess we could estimate the progress
by counting the number of times E.G. the extract target has been run
divided by $(words $(TARGETS)).

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard