On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:24 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Wed December 3 2008, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > * overladden with non-helpful gimmicks like progress percentages and > > > color output > > > > You can call color output a "non-helpful gimmick" (though it really helps > > visually separating the lines just saying what is being built from any > > error or warning messages), but progress percentages are definitely useful! > > Do you not want to know how far your build actually is? > > I am only interested to know, when it finished. The color gimmicks help you better than the lines displaying what the tools underneath are doing? Pardon, but this logic escapes me. > But this is already taken care > of by koji. :-) As a developer, maintainer and/or packager you normally want to see what the tools are doing, e.g. if the compiler has received the correct flags, is using the correct libraries etc. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
